B2 Spice v5

by Beige Bag Software

B2 Spice v5 is the latest version of the popular and powerful mixed mode EDA (Electronic Design Automation) simulator, with new standards in ease-of-use, power, and capabilities. B2 Spice contains a plethora of additional features, from complex digital circuits to radio frequency simulation and PCB design and includes a standard library of over 25,000 parts. There's no limit on the size of your design and results are easy to understand and interpret.

Highlights:

• Intuitive User Interface - toolbar, tab, and button driven for more intuitive control
• Virtual Instruments - oscilloscope, ammeter, voltmeter, wattmeter, distortion meters, and MORE.
• "Live Circuit" Parameters that can be altered as a simulation is running. Results displayed on virtual instruments or on the schematic via circuit animation
• Parts Browser with customizable Parts Palette
• Curve Tracer to plot the behavior of a device before you place it in your circuit.
• Simulation mode - continuous transient simulation
• Multiple level tests - Multiple parameter sweeps or Monte Carlo sweeps in ANY test
• "Real-world" devices model performance of actual parts such as capacitors, resistors, and inductors.
• Circuit Wizard to step you through the creation of the most commonly used circuit configurations
• Graphing module - complete control over all aspects of the graph.
• Tabbed window projects to keep all the documents in a project in one Window.
• Cross Probing that interactively updates the graph as you add or move the probes around the circuit.
• Circuit Visualization to display the actual current flow through the circuit and the relative voltage relationships by varying the wire's display color.
• Quick, easy, and intuitive schematic entry
• Export to and import from Eagle, a world leader in PCB software.
• 12 powerful tests
• 25,000 digital and analog parts including hundreds of REALISTIC behavioral models for such parts as resistors, inductors and capacitors.
• Parameterized subcircuits
• Create a part from any circuit
• Password protected defects
• Shared models
• Database editor to import and manage the library of parts
• Integrated symbol editor to create custom device symbols
• Improved schematics with DIN and ANSI symbols
• RF simulations and network analysis
• Schematic borders and title-box for professional output
• Smith and polar plots
• Intuitive, full featured schematic editor cut, copy and paste of selected items
• Undo support
• Full device rotation
• Device mirroring
• Repeat placement of a device
• Easy to draw and edit wires
• Browse-able, filterable, device libraries
• User-defined devices and symbols
• Complete macro device capability
• Rubber banding of wires and devices
• Annotation of devices
• Quick menu selection of commonly used parts
• Zoom in or out on an area or item with custom zoom factors
• Fit circuit to window function
• User-selectable colours
• Export circuit drawings and waveforms supports all Microsoft Windows driven printers and plotters
• Modification of devices and symbols in schematic
• Control over fonts and colours in schematic
• Export SPICE3 compatible net lists
• Generate SPICE3 sub circuits from the circuit
• Create part from the circuit
• View steady state results directly in the schematic
• View node numbers
• Colour coded digital wire states
• Copy circuit picture to the clipboard for pasting into other applications
• Print circuit to any output device

Library Management:

• Import your existing SPICE subcircuits and models into parts library
• Easily create and modify parts in database
• Modify symbols for the parts
• Match up symbol pins with model pins to reliably create parts
• Modify parameters for behavioural models
• Modify parameters for all Spice models
• Specify manufacturer, description, and category for parts and models
• Parts, models, and symbols are stored in a Microsoft Access database file

Parts Library of over 30,000 parts:

• All parts in Berkeley Spice 3F5 and XSpice are included in the parts library
• Many digital parts from the most popular libraries.
• Parts from vendors such as AMP, APEX, Burr-Brown, Comlinear, Elantec, Linear Technology, Maxim, Motorola, National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, and more.
• Many types of parts specified as subcircuits including Zener diodes, power MOSFET?s, operational amplifiers
• Many types of digital parts, including gates, inverters, counters, registers, buffers, coder/decoders, mux/demuxes, and more.

Additional parts specified at a behavioural level including:

• Analogue phase locked loop, continuous S domain transfer function, peak detector, sample and hold circuit, Schmitt trigger/ bistable network, voltage noise source, current noise source, piecewise linear system, discrete time Z domain transfer function, and operational amplifier.
• These behaviour model parts can be customized from their behavioural parameters:
  Resistor, Capacitor, Inductor, Coupled inductors, diode, switches, Bjt, jfet, mosfet (all 6 models), mesfet, lossless transmission line, lossy transmission line, uniform RC line, Controlled sources, voltage and current sources.
• Arbitrary source which can be used to model non-linear resistors and other parts.
• Parameterised sub circuits give you the ability to alter sub circuit part behaviour.

Highly Accurate Simulations

• Run simulation directly from schematic, or from a text window containing a spice deck 32-bit code: DC Bias, DC Sweep, AC Sweep, Transient, Monte Carlo, Noise, Distortion, Fourier, Pole/zero, sensitivity, and transfer function simulations
• Show Device and Model parameters in a text window after the simulator has calculated them.
• Full set of SPICE and XSpice options, including error tolerances, iteration limits, MOSFET defaults and more.
• Pause or stop simulation at any time.
• Digital command and vector files give you complete control over digital simulations view simulation results as the data is being collected
• Intuitive interface for setting bias point initial guess and transient initial conditions
• Multifunction signal generators (sine, single frequency FM, exponential, pulse, sawtooth, triangle, piecewise linear)
• Multimeters (measure DC or AC voltage, current)
• Unlimited number of instruments
• Full screen analogue waveform analysis
• Full screen digital trace
• View any number of waveform simultaneously
• Plot voltage, current, frequency response and dc characteristics
• View results in tables and/or graphs
• Log of simulation progress, errors, warnings, and statistics provided with each simulation run

Graph Editor

• Zoom in or out on a specific point with a magnifying glass cursor
• Stretch the plot horizontally or vertically
• Squeeze the plot horizontally or vertically
• Scroll around the graph
• Create your plots by simply entering mathematical expressions
• Value labelling of the X and Y axes for all graphics windows
• Find and label maximums and minimums
• Group plots by families or control them individually
• Measurement of differences between specific points on a graph
• Measurement cursors provide quick and accurate measurements in all analysis windows
• Non-linear math functions
• Ability to include ?deep? plots of sub circuit nodes
• Highlight any plot by clicking on its name in the legend
• Zoom in on any plot in the graph by control-clicking on its name
• Unlimited number of plots
• Set plot colours
• Show or hide any plot
• Set graph font
• Set log or linear scales for x and y axes
• Set graph title
• Specify engineering or scientific notation
• Copy graph picture to the clipboard for pasting into other applications
• Print graph to any output device