RF.Spice A/D Technical Specifications

RF.Spice A/D: A Complete Circuit & System Simulation Environment

RF.Spice A/D in a Nutshell

RF.Spice A/D is a powerful visual simulation environment for analysis and design of analog, digital, RF and mixed-signal circuits and systems. Rather than verifying your circuit designs using real physical components in a laboratory with expensive test equipment, RF.Spice A/D allows you to perform accurate and realistic simulations of your circuits without clipping wires or splashing solder. With RF.Spice A/D, editing and simulating electronic circuits and systems is a quick, easy, even enjoyable, process. RF.Spice A/D is made up of a number of integrated components and utilities that make circuit simulation a simple and easy task: an intuitive schematic editor, an expandable parts database, a powerful device manager with an integrated symbol editor, an expanded SPICE simulation engine comprising SPICE 3F5 and XSPICE solvers with event-driven digital simulation and RF network analysis capabilities and an extensive graphing utilities including live simulation data update on virtual instruments.

Schematic Editor

  • Streamlined user interface with intuitive toolbars, menus and a convenient side panel
  • Tabbed workspace to keep a project’s documents all in one window
  • 25,000 digital, analog and RF parts including hundreds of realistic behavioral models
  • Parts Browser with customizable Parts Palette
  • Quick and easy schematic entry using a large set of keyboard shortcuts for generic parts and a versatile wiring tool
  • Alter “Live Circuit Parameters” during a simulation and display results on virtual instruments or on the schematic via circuit animation
  • Digital buses allow you to group a set of wires together into a single bus to keeps large circuits compact and easy to edit and debug
  • One-click generation of Netlist file from any schematic

Analog, Digital, RF & Mixed-Mode SPICE Simulators

  • Berkeley Spice 3F5 and Georgia Tech XSpice simulation engines
  • Extension of standard SPICE transmission line models to generic and physical T-Line devices for RF analysis
  • Multiport capability with S-parameter models as functions of frequency
  • Continuous (perpetual) transient simulation allows you to vary live circuit parameters while the simulation is running
  • Virtual instruments: oscilloscope, function generator, ammeter, voltmeter, wattmeter, distortion meter, and more, to be used during a live continuous simulation
  • Many powerful analysis types (known as Tests): transient, dc bias, ac sweep, sensitivity analysis, distortion, noise, network analysis, etc.
  • Multivariable sweeps or Monte Carlo sweeps for all test types
  • A large variety of sources and excitation waveforms, including sine, square and triangle waves, single-tone modulated signals, nonlinear dependent sources and arbitrary waveforms defined through mathematical expressions
  • Curve tracer circuits to examine the behavior of an active device before you place it in your circuit
  • Event-driven digital simulation: manual stepping, walk and continuous clocking
  • Accurate simulation of the propagation delays and setup and hold times for each device according to the specifications in logic data books
  • Customizable device properties: Modify propagation delays and other characteristics of devices in your circuit and of the models of devices in the libraries

Parts Database & Device Manager

  • A large selection of active device models (diode, BJTs, FETs, MOSFETs, MESFETS, operational amplifiers, etc.) with no less than six distinct MOSFET models including BSIM3 and BSIM4
  • One-ports, two-ports, three-ports, four-ports, complex impedance, and other S-parameter-based devices
  • Import high frequency models of capacitors, inductors, diodes, BJTs, JFETs, MOSFETs, MESFETs, from simple text files
  • 19 types of physical transmission line models including microstrip, stripline, coplanar waveguide, coaxial lines, etc.
  • A large variety of RF generic components such as Wilkinson power divider, branchline and rat-race hybrid couples, etc. as well as physical line discontinuities
  • 130 virtual blocks representing black-box system behaviors
  • Powerful Device Manager with integrated Symbol Editor
  • Unlimited user-defined parameterized subcircuit models
  • Create a part from any circuit and package it as a reusable database device
  • Import and manage external parts libraries

Data Visualization

  • Extensive graphing utilities with complete control over all aspects of the graph
  • Real and complex data plots (Mag/Phase or Re/Im) and Smith chart
  • Live digital timing diagrams during live digital circuit simulations
  • Cross probing interactively updates the graph as you add or move the probes around the circuit
  • Simulation data update on virtual instruments or via circuit animation on the schematic in response to live circuit parameter variations

System Requirements

  • Intel core i5 or later processor
  • 8 GB RAM minimum
  • Microsoft Windows 10 operating system or higher
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