SPICE for Power Electronics and Electric Power, 3rd Edition

2	Circuit Descriptions

After completing this chapter, students should be able to do the following:

•  Describe circuits for PSpice simulation.

•  Create input schematic files that can be read by PSpice.

•  Obtain output results and plots of simulations.

•  Perform PSpice simulation for finding the transient plots and total harmonic distortion (THD) of voltages and currents.

2.1    INTRODUCTION

PSpice is a general-purpose circuit program that can be applied to simulate electronic and electrical circuits. A circuit must be specified in terms of element names, element values, nodes, variable parameters, and sources. The input to the circuit shown in Figure 2.1a is a pulse voltage as shown in Figure 2.1b. The circuit is to be simulated for calculating ...