{ "disks": { "1": { "dirs": [ { "path": "/", "files": [ { "name": "DESIGN INF", "size": 13145, "date": "1992-01-29", "time": "16:09" }, { "name": "DESIGN51 001", "size": 880632, "date": "1992-01-29", "time": "14:48" }, { "name": "DISK ID", "size": 69, "date": "1992-01-29", "time": "14:43" }, { "name": "MSIM INI", "size": 1126, "date": "1992-01-21", "time": "8:09" }, { "name": "PSPICE IFF", "size": 8192, "date": "1992-04-28", "time": "13:57" }, { "name": "README DOC", "size": 18824, "date": "1992-01-29", "time": "16:02" }, { "name": "README SCM", "size": 25242, "date": "1992-01-29", "time": "15:00" }, { "name": "SETUP EXE", "size": 209037, "date": "1991-12-12", "time": "11:21" } ] } ], "volume": "5E071015331" }, "2": { "dirs": [ { "path": "/", "files": [ { "name": "DESIGN51 002", "size": 1213440, "date": "1992-01-29", "time": "14:46" }, { "name": "DISK ID", "size": 69, "date": "1992-01-29", "time": "14:45" } ] } ], "volume": "5E071015313" }, "3": { "dirs": [ { "path": "/", "files": [ { "name": "DESIGN51 003", "size": 1159584, "date": "1992-01-29", "time": "14:48" }, { "name": "DISK ID", "size": 69, "date": "1992-01-29", "time": "14:47" } ] } ], "volume": "CTEX386" }, "4": { "dirs": [ { "path": "/", "files": [ { "name": "DC51-4 ZIP", "size": 940885, "date": "1993-06-16", "time": "20:27" }, { "name": "PKUNZIP EXE", "size": 29378, "date": "1993-02-01", "time": "2:04" } ] } ], "volume": "DC51-4" }, "5": { "dirs": [ { "path": "/", "files": [ { "name": "DC51-5 ZIP", "size": 702274, "date": "1993-06-16", "time": "20:31" }, { "name": "PKUNZIP EXE", "size": 29378, "date": "1993-02-01", "time": "2:04" } ] } ], "volume": "DC51-5" } }, "desc_file": "README.DOC", "desc_text": "\t\t\tTHE DESIGN CENTER 5.1\r\n\r\n\r\n1.0) Introduction\r\n \r\n This file describes the new features and changes for the 5.1\r\n release of the Design Center programs: PSpice, Probe, \r\n Stimulus Editor, and Parts. The platforms covered in this \r\n file include: non-windows IBM-PC and NEC-PC with DOS/16M, \r\n Windows 3.0 IBM-PC and NEC-PC, Macintosh, Sun, DECstation,\r\n and VAX/VMS. Most of the material in this file will direct \r\n you to the location in the analysis manuals where detailed \r\n information on each subject can be found.\r\n \r\n The analysis documentation referenced in this README.DOC \r\n consists of the following manuals:\r\n \r\n \"Analysis System Setup Manual\"\r\n \"Analysis User's Guide\"\r\n \"Analysis Reference Manual\"\r\n\r\n\r\n2.0) PSpice\r\n\r\n2.1) DOS Only / Install Program for PSpice\r\n \r\n The installation program used to install PSpice, INSTALL, is \r\n licensed software provided by Knowledge Dynamics Corporation, \r\n P.O. Box 1558, Canyon Lake, Texas 78130-1558 (USA). INSTALL \r\n is Copyright (c) 1987-1992 by Knowledge Dynamics Corporation\r\n which reserves all copyright protection worldwide. INSTALL \r\n is provided to you for the exclusive purpose of installing \r\n PSpice. MicroSim Corporation is exclusively responsible for \r\n the support of PSpice, including support during the \r\n installation phase. In no event will Knowledge Dynamics \r\n Corporation be able to provide any technical support for \r\n PSpice.\r\n\r\n2.2) Table 4 on page 52 of the Analysis Reference Manual\r\n lists two new intrinsic functions for PSpice expressions. \r\n Please refer to the manual for detailed information regarding\r\n the results of each expression.\r\n\r\n The new functions are:\r\n\r\n TABLE(x,x1,y1,x2,y2,...xn,yn) \r\n\r\n LIMIT(x,min,max) \r\n\r\n\r\n2.3) To link the DOS/16M version, you must use the Microsoft \r\n segment-executable linker that comes with the Microsoft C \r\n compiler. To link the DOS version, we recommend that you \r\n use the Plink86plus linker (version 2.24) from Intersolve. \r\n For more information contact:\r\n\r\n Life Boat Distribution Services\r\n 1163 Shrewsbury Avenue\r\n Shrewsbury, New Jersey 07702\r\n (800) 445-7899\r\n\r\n\r\n2.4) Fourier Analysis (.FOUR command)\r\n\r\n The .FOUR command for Fourier analysis now allows an\r\n argument to specify the number of harmonics you wish\r\n to have calculated. \r\n\r\n The general format is:\r\n \r\n .FOUR [no. harmonics value] *\r\n\r\n For example:\r\n \r\n .FOUR 60Hz 20 V(17)\r\n\r\n If the number of harmonics is not specified, the DC\r\n component, fundamental, and 2nd through 9th harmonics\r\n are calculated by default.\r\n\r\n Refer to Chapter Three, page 62 of the Analysis Reference \r\n Manual for information on the .FOUR command.\r\n\r\n\r\n2.5) Lossy Transmission Line Model\r\n\r\n A Lossy Transmission Line model has been implemented in \r\n version 5.1. Using the distributed model approach rather\r\n than the the traditional lumped model approach allows you\r\n to simulate lossy lines in a significantly reduced amount\r\n of time. \r\n\r\n \r\n The general format is:\r\n\r\n T \r\n + \r\n + LEN= R= L=\r\n + G= C=\r\n \r\n For examples refer to Chapter Four, page 127 \"Transmission \r\n Line\" (T device), of the Analysis Reference Manual. \r\n\r\n\r\n2.6) Device Libraries\r\n\r\n\r\n2.6.1) Digital Library Additions\r\n\r\n The new library files added to the Digital Library are:\r\n \r\n dig_pal.lib - Programmable Array Logic devices\r\n Note: PAL20RA10 is listed in the library list,\r\n but is not currently available in this library.\r\n\r\n dig_gal.lib - Generic Array Logic devices\r\n\r\n dig_ecl.lib - Emitter Coupled Logic 10K and 100K devices\r\n Note: 100181 is listed in the library list, but is not \r\n currently available in this library.\r\n\r\n The devices and their pin lists are provided in tables in the \r\n Analysis Reference Manual. These tables can be found at the \r\n end of Chapter Five on pages 288-292.\r\n\r\n\r\n2.6.2) Analog Library Additions \r\n\r\n The following libraries have been added to the 5.1 version \r\n of PSpice:\r\n\r\n europe.lib - European-manufactured semiconductor devices\r\n\r\n harris.lib - RCA/GE/Harris power-transistor devices\r\n\r\n swit_rav.lib - Averaging power supply devices\r\n Note: The Average Power Supply Model VMSSDCM is listed in\r\n the library list, but is not currently available in this \r\n library.\r\n\r\n2.6.2.1) EUROPE.LIB\r\n\r\n Some of the devices in EUROPE.LIB and their counterparts in\r\n the regular libraries (eg. DIODE.LIB) have identical names. \r\n In order for PSpice to find the correct model/subcircuit \r\n definition, you must ensure that the appropriate library is \r\n specified first in NOM.LIB.\r\n\r\n If EUROPE.LIB is specified before another model library\r\n containing duplicate names, none of the duplicate devices\r\n in the second library will be accessed. Therefore, if\r\n D1N4148 and D1N4149 exist in both EUROPE.LIB and DIODE.LIB, \r\n PSpice would take both the D1N4148 and D1N4149 definitions\r\n from EUROPE.LIB which is listed before DIODE.LIB in NOM.LIB.\r\n To avoid this from happening you can extract the specific\r\n devices from the desired libraries and put them into a library\r\n that is listed before any other library containing the device\r\n with the duplicate name.\r\n\r\n If you are using Schematics, the order of symbol libraries\r\n specified in the [SCHEMATICS LIBS] section of msim.ini should\r\n reflect the order of model libraries specified in NOM.LIB.\r\n\r\n\r\n2.7) Inertial and Transport Delay\r\n\r\n PSpice uses two different types of internal delay functions when \r\n simulating the digital portion of the circuit: \"inertial delay\" \r\n and \"transport delay\". The application of these concepts is \r\n embodied within the implementation of the digital primitives \r\n within PSpice. Therefore, they are not user-selectable.\r\n\r\n To obtain detailed information on Inertial and Transport Delay,\r\n please refer to the Analysis Reference Manual, Chapter Four, \r\n Section 4.8.4.4 (pages 100-101).\r\n \r\n \r\n2.8) Digital Worst-case Timing Simulation\r\n\r\n With \"digital worst-case timing simulation\" (new for the\r\n 5.1 release), you will be able to use PSpice to evaluate\r\n the timing behavior of your digital and mixed analog/digital\r\n designs using a full range of component propagation delay \r\n tolerances. In Chapter Five of the Analysis User's Guide\r\n you will find information on digital worst-case timing \r\n simulation, starting with Section 5.5\r\n on page 135. The remaining sections and their subjects are:\r\n \r\n 5.5.1 Simulator Representation of Timing Ambiguity\r\n 5.5.2 Simulator Propagation of Timing Ambiguity\r\n 5.5.3 Identification of Timing Hazards\r\n 5.5.3.1 Convergence Hazard\r\n 5.5.3.2 Critical Hazard\r\n 5.5.3.3 Cumulative Ambiguity Hazard\r\n 5.5.3.4 Reconvergence Hazard\r\n 5.5.4 Glitch Suppression Due to Inertial Delay\r\n 5.5.5 Methodology\r\n \r\n \r\n2.9) PSpice as a Native Windows 3.0 Program on the IBM-PC and NEC-PC\r\n\r\n The general operating instructions for Windows PSpice as a \r\n native Windows 3.0 program can be found in Chapter Two, \r\n Section 2.3.1.2, (pages 16-20) of the Analysis Reference Manual. \r\n \r\n Windows PSpice will run on any IBM 386 or 486 based PC, IBM-PC \r\n compatible computers, or NEC-PC running the Design Center \r\n package with schematic capture. This program requires a \r\n minimum of one megabyte of memory available in the Windows \r\n environment, plus the amount needed to run your particular \r\n circuit files. \r\n\r\n\r\n2.9.1) Windows PSpice Menus\r\n\r\n To assist you in navigating through the Windows PSpice menus\r\n here is a list of the new menus and the commands within each.\r\n \r\n (a) HELP MENU\r\n \r\n About PSpice... \r\n \r\n\r\n (b) FILE MENU\r\n\r\n Open \r\n Terminate Simulation \r\n Save Window Configuration \r\n Exit to Windows \r\n \r\n\r\n (c) FONT MENU\r\n\r\n System \r\n ANSI Fixed \r\n ANSI Variable \r\n OEM \r\n Other Fonts... \r\n \r\n\r\n (d) COLOR MENU\r\n\r\n Text Color \r\n Background Color \r\n Error Text Color \r\n Error Background Color \r\n \r\n (e) DISPLAY MENU\r\n\r\n Immediate \r\n Fast \r\n Slow \r\n \r\n3.0) Probe\r\n\r\n3.1) Analog and Digital Plots\r\n\r\n For the 5.0 and earlier releases of Probe, you could have \r\n 0, 1, or more analog plots, and 0 or 1 digital plots.\r\n\r\n For the 5.1 release of Probe, you can have 0, 1, or several \r\n plots. Each plot can be analog only, digital only, or both \r\n analog and digital. When a plot is both analog and digital, \r\n the analog traces are displayed in the bottom part of the \r\n plot with a dashed border, and the digital traces are \r\n displayed in the top part of the plot with a solid border.\r\n\r\n When you start Probe with a .dat file that has both analog and \r\n digital data, an empty analog plot is shown. After adding \r\n traces, the plot will have both analog and digital parts if \r\n both analog and digital traces have been displayed.\r\n\r\n Digital plot size is now specified as a percentage of the \r\n overall plot size. In Probe 5.0, there was only one digital \r\n plot and the digital plot size was specified as the number of \r\n digital traces the digital plot could display.\r\n\r\n3.2) Menus\r\n \r\n The menus have been modified to improve the command flow for\r\n displaying both analog and digital waveforms on the same plot. \r\n The Analog Plot Menu and the Digital Plot Menu are now combined. \r\n This new menu structure includes the digital_Trace_commands \r\n which allow the user to move, insert, change, and scroll \r\n digital traces.\r\n\r\n \r\n3.3) Remove_trace\r\n \r\n Changes have been made to allow one or more traces to be\r\n selected for removal, before actually removing the traces\r\n (and doing the sometimes time consuming redraw of the\r\n display).\r\n\r\n The traces to be removed may be selected by using either the\r\n mouse or the arrow keys and space bar. Selected traces are \r\n marked with a '<' to the right of the trace name\r\n e.g. V(4)< ).\r\n\r\n Using the mouse:\r\n Clicking on the trace name the first time selects \r\n\t\t the trace.\r\n Clicking on the trace again deselects it.\r\n \r\n Using the arrow keys and space bar:\r\n When select is chosen, the first trace is \r\n\t\t highlighted. The right and left arrows will \r\n\t\t move the highlight to other trace names. \r\n\t\t The space bar selects/deselects the trace.\r\n\r\n Also, an Undelete command has been added. It will redisplay\r\n the last trace(s) deleted since entering the Remove_trace menu.\r\n Undelete only appears in the menu if traces have been deleted\r\n since entering the Remove_trace menu.\r\n\r\n NOTE: because of these changes, Probe command files created by\r\n Probe 5.0 or earlier, will no longer work for deleting traces.\r\n\r\n\r\n3.4) Add Trace\r\n\r\n Add_trace now allows you to specify analog traces, digital \r\n traces, or both at the same time. You cannot create an \r\n expression that combines analog and digital nodes to create \r\n one trace.\r\n\r\n Digital expressions have been added, and the syntax for \r\n specifying a bus has changed. \r\n\r\n A digital signal can be any digital node in the data file or\r\n a boolean expression involving digital nodes. Please see \r\n page 312 of the Analysis Reference Manual for information \r\n on digital signals and digital expressions.\r\n\r\n\r\n3.5) Goal function search commands:\r\n\r\n Limited expressions have been added for LEVEL(val),\r\n and XVALUE(val).\r\n\r\n In 5.0, val could be:\r\n a floating number (e.g., 1e5, 100n, 1, ...)\r\n a percent (eg 50%)\r\n a marked point (e.g., x1, y1, ...)\r\n\r\n In 5.1, val can also be:\r\n a db value relative to max or min\r\n max-3db or -3db => 3db below maximum range\r\n min+3db or 3db => 3db above minimum range\r\n a value relative to max or min\r\n max-3 => maximum range - 3\r\n min+3 => minimum range + 3\r\n a relative db value\r\n .-3db => 3db below lastvalue\r\n .+3db => 3db above lastvalue\r\n a relative value\r\n .-3 => lastvalue - 3\r\n .+3 => lastvalue + 3\r\n\r\n where lastvalue is the x or y value found by the last search \r\n command. For the first search command, lastvalue is the \r\n starting point for the first search command.\r\n\r\n Refer to page 320 of the Analysis Reference Manual for\r\n more information on Search_commands.\r\n\r\n\r\n3.6) Probe as a Native Windows 3.0 Program on the IBM-PC and NEC-PC\r\n \r\n Probe running as a Windows 3.0 application, is only available \r\n in the Design Center package with schematic capture. Windows \r\n Probe provides similar functionality included in non-windows \r\n Probe, implemented by utilizing pull-down menus and dialog \r\n boxes.\r\n \r\n To help you locate Probe functions, the following Windows\r\n Probe main menus and their command items are provided. For\r\n details on the command defintions see Chapter Six, Section \r\n 6.3.2.1 (page 342) of the Analysis Reference Manual.\r\n\r\n \r\n FILE MENU ANALYSIS MENU TRACE MENU\r\n \r\n Load AC Add \r\n Print DC Remove\r\n Printer Setup Transient Macro\r\n Log Commands Symbols\r\n Run Commands Mark Data Points\r\n Exit\r\n About Probe\r\n \r\n \r\n AXIS MENU ZOOM MENU CURSOR MENU\r\n \r\n Set Range Display Pointer Display\r\n Add Y Normal Peak\r\n Delete Y In Trough\r\n Color Out Slope\r\n Title Area Min\r\n Y Log Scale Max\r\n X Log Scale Search Commands\r\n X Variable Next Transition\r\n Restrict Data Previous Transition\r\n Fourier\r\n Performance Analysis\r\n\r\n\r\n DISPLAY MENU\r\n \r\n Digital Plot Size\r\n Save/Restore\r\n Copy to Clipboard\r\n Redraw\r\n\r\n In general, all commands are available at all times, provided\r\n that the command makes sense. For instance, Remove in the \r\n trace menu is enabled only when there are traces to remove.\r\n\r\n Some options, such as Fourier, are toggles which can be \r\n either on or off. On is denoted by a check mark next to the \r\n command, and off is denoted by the absence of the check mark.\r\n\r\n Some commands require some prior action before they will work.\r\n\r\n Trace Remove: You must first select the traces to remove.\r\n This is done by pointing at the name of the trace in the\r\n legend and clicking the left mouse button. You may\r\n select multiple traces by holding down the shift key while\r\n selecting the trace names.\r\n\r\n Zoom commands: You must enable the zoom pointer before you\r\n zoom in or out. You may move the zoom pointer with the\r\n mouse by clicking over a point of interest. Zooming in\r\n and out works by a factor of two around the zoom pointer.\r\n If you \"click and drag\" (press and hold the mouse button,\r\n move the mouse, release the button), you can define an\r\n area to zoom into using the Zoom Area command. Zoom Normal\r\n is always available.\r\n\r\n Cursor commands: You must display the cursors before you can\r\n use any cursor commands. If the command has implied\r\n direction, such as Peak, then the direction moved is the\r\n same as the last direction moved, or right if there was no\r\n last direction. Likewise, the cursor moved will be the same\r\n as the last cursor moved. Next Transition and Previous\r\n Transition are not available in the beta version.\r\n\r\n Features not available through the menus:\r\n\r\n Digital Scrolling: To scroll the digital plot, use the mouse\r\n to click on the \"+\" signs in the digital legend. They will\r\n only appear if there are additional digital traces not \r\n currently displayed.\r\n\r\n Compatibility with non-windows Probe:\r\n\r\n Log/Command Files: These are specific to the windows version.\r\n\r\n Macro Files (.mac): Compatible\r\n\r\n Display Files (.dsp): Compatible\r\n\r\n Data Files (.dat): Compatible\r\n\r\n Data Files (.txt): CSDF data files are not available in the\r\n beta version. \r\n \r\n Goal Function Files (.gf): Compatible\r\n\r\n\r\n4.0) Parts\r\n\r\n If you are running on an NEC-PC or IBM-PC (or compatible)\r\n then you will need 510 kilobytes of conventional memory free \r\n to run Parts.\r\n\r\n4.1) Non-linear Magnetic Core Model\r\n\r\n A non-linear magnetic core model has been added and uses\r\n a derivative of the Jiles-Atherton formulation to provide\r\n a closed-form, analytic solution. For detailed information\r\n please refer to Chapter Eight, page 414, of the Analysis\r\n Reference Manual." }