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(OrCAD 10.3) How to display missing bias point labels?

Question in regards to using the Capture tool in OrCAD 10.3:

Within Capture, under menu PSpice->Bias Points->Enable allows you to see (via floating labels) the circuit voltage, current and power dissipation at time 0 for a circuit at each node in the netlist. The label will show, for example, the voltage level with a dotted line pointing to the corresponding node.

Unforunately some of these labels at certain nodes are not displayed. Looking at the properties for these non-labeled node reveals that the "BiasValue Voltage" and such has been calculated.

How do you restore the label points at these nodes?

Thanks, Beta

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Within Capture I don't know. Within PSpice Schematics there are two "voltage" buttons and two "current" buttons.

If you _select a wire_, the second button is used to display it.

...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson

Jim that worked. There are buttons in the capture toolbar that revealed the bias voltages and such for selected nodes.

Is there a way to save bias points at some other time than time 0? I would like to see what the bias values are starting at time 170ms. I noted that there was something similar to this under Analysis tab for Simulation Settings, Save Bias Point, but after setting 170ms in the "Once at simulation time" field, the circuit in capture still showed time 0 bias point data. Thanks, beta

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"Bias point" at some later time wouldn't be a bias point, it'd be a snap-shot of nodes at some instantaneous point in time (assuming a ..TRAN analysis)... you could get these points manually in Probe.

It just occurred to me that, if you add a "Print" statement, you can get a node listing (in the .OUT file) that might meet your needs.

Beware... adding a "Print" statement, in our GUI world, now means placing a PART, although I think you could also do it with a .INC file... I'll study what might be done.

...Jim Thompson

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|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
|  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
|  Phoenix, Arizona            Voice:(480)460-2350  |             |
|  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  |
|       http://www.analog-innovations.com           |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

well i think the other possible way is to shift the data 170ms. a royal pain, but doable thanks beta

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