Why SPICE simulation is important?

​SPICE ("Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis") is a general-purpose, open-source electronic circuit simulator. It is a program used in integrated circuit (VLSI) and board-level design (Embedded) to check the integrity of circuit designs and to predict circuit behavior. Hardware is expensive, so modeling and simulating a circuit before fab out saves time and cost. 

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TINA-TI tool overview

• Available components

• Sketching circuit

• Analysis – Set control object, AC, DC, Transient, Noise, Fourier

• Test & Measurement

• Create/import SPICE macro

• Parametric Sweep​. 

 

Tutorials with examples

1. Voltage divider circuit

   • DC nodal analysis

   • AC nodal analysis

2. Diode drive circuit

   • DC transfer characteristics.

3. RC circuit

   • AC Bode Plot.

   • Transient response.

4. NTC circuit

   • Temperature sweep

5. Op-Amp AC input circuit

   • Transient

   • Noise and Fourier

   • Gain parameter sweep.

   • AC transfer characteristics.

6. Custom SPICE model macro​