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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
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