What's the best book on circuit simulation (Spice programmi)

[phongphanp]

analog communications pspice tobin

Hello,

I want to know how to programming spice such as Pspice , I had found the book but can't recognize Title of that book . May someone help to clear this .



Thank You,

Phongphan Porana

phongphanp@yahoo.com

 

[darla1]

best book on circuits

you can read pspice by

rashid that book is very nice for PSPICE

 

[phongphanp]

circuit simulation mna

I want to write C code for circuit analysis , not to use Pspice to analysis . How to programming with Matrix system and how to opimize time limit or complexity of circuit analysis( Power , communication such as ring resonator ). Circuit analysis book by Lawrence is an example , I think. But if one may known the best book for this job, tell me plz!



Thank,

Phongphan Porana
phongphanp@yahoo.com
Student at Kmitl in Thailand.

 

[Bhanumurthy]

best book to learn about circuit simulation

Hi,
'Pspice for Circuits and Electronic devices' by Paul Tobin is an excellent book.
The book is available here on EDA board.


Regards
Bhanumurthy.

 

[phongphanp]

best circuit simulator

I want to coding in C for analysis circuit not to use commercial software like Pspice . And Lawrence's book on circuit simulation is an example, and I want to know about other related books thanks...........

 

[TekUT]

pspice programming

Search for Modified Nodal Analisys (MNA):

http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/echeeve1/Ref/mna/MNA2.html
http://qucs.sourceforge.net/tech/node14.html

about capacitive and inductive elements you've to use a discretization formula as costitutive relation for the component, e.g. trapezoidal approximation.

I've written such type of simulator for my master thesis (some year ago...) and I've used the MNA formulation and this type of discretization for reactive element, I was using this to achieve fast simulation of switching power converter than classical PSpice simulator (PWL approximation of the switching and non linear elements).
My simulator was written in order to take as input file with spice like syntax, then a device reference (R,L,C,V,E, ... for the commonly PSpice defined device) and X for subcircuits or built-in model (like FF, sawtooth generator and so on...), then a first step will be a file scanning and MNA building. After that the big things was how to code a efficient loop in order to find and update every element trough the simulation. I've did this by using a vector of pointer to function, every function was related to one elements and inside the function there is the evaluation of voltage and current for the device referred. If you need more info I can take a look at my old work, just let me know (I'm in summer holiday for the next two weeks also then may be you've to wait a little to have some news from me).

Anyway take also a look at this paper:

The modified nodal approach to network analysis
Chung-Wen Ho; Ruehli, A.; Brennan, P.
Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on
Volume 22, Issue 6, Jun 1975 Page(s): 504 - 509
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Summary: The nodal method has been widely used for formulating circuit equations in computer-aided network analysis and design programs. However, several limitations exist in this method including the inability to process voltage sources and current-dependent circuit elements in a simple and efficient manner. A modified nodal analysis (MNA) method is proposed here which retains the simplicity and other advantages of nodal analysis while removing its limitations. A simple and effective pivoting scheme is also given. Numerical examples are used to compare the MNA method with the tableau method. Favorable results are observed for the MNA method in terms of the dimension, number of nonzeros, and fill-ins for comparable circuit matrices.

Bye
Powermos

 

[phongphanp]

spice mna

I will review your paper in this week. And I have other question about The Symbolic Computation for circuit analysis on windows system , anybody may gave me some guide line , Please .

 

[phongphanp]

what is the best book to learn pspice

I found your Spice-liked program on your site, I would ask you for Demo of this analytical software to testing my idea if one had work completely.


Thanks you very much,

Phongphan.

 

[phongphanp]

best book for spice circuit simulation is

I found another name of book : Network Synthesis , but don't sure that it has the rich mathematical contents. Who have any idea to share, please.




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