What to get PSPICE?

Hi! Where can I download a copy of PSPICE?

Thanks.

Hi! Where can I download a copy of PSPICE?

Thanks.

You can ask 3 more times, and it still will be a commercial product.

If you want a good PSPICE compatible spice implementation, that is available for no charge, try doing a google on: Linear Technology SwitcherCAD

How about something similar from

? Look for Switcher Cad. It is a fully functional and free Spice program.

Regards,

Boris Mohar

Got Knock? - see: Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs (among other things)

void _-void-_ in the obvious place

SwitcherCAD

Just doing a google search using the keywords "download pspice" I found quite a few student versions available.

SwitcherCAD

Ok, I'll bite, why would anyone want a clipped down student version when a complete professional spice that is compatible with PSPICE is available from Linear Technology for free?

-Chuck

SwitcherCAD

Don't you find LTSpice's schematic entry kind of awkward compared to pspice? Sure it's better and I use it instead of Pspice, but... The OP specifically asked for pspice, so just trying to accommodate...

"Lord, I appologize for that...that just ain't right...and be with the starvin' pygmies in New Guinea. Amen!"

The usual reasons are because (1) your educational institute has been using PSpice (it's been around a lot longer than LTSpice has) and most people would rather bug their classmates/professor if something doesn't work than take their chances in the Internet (and most professors take a very hands-off approach on actively changing software they've been using for a decade) or (2) it has some feature you need (again because your school is using them), such as support for specific transistor level models that LTSpice doesn't.

For a home hobbyist, I can't imagine when you'd head the PSpice route.

Oh yeah, one final reason... when I was in graduate school, it was required that you use *HSpice* (which, although quite powerful in absolute terms, is crap on a power per dollar scale) for your designs so that all the results could be compared "fairly" (the assignments were to design, e.g., an op-amp or something with whatever specs, and in general the specs were somewhat difficult to meet at *all* -- many people didn't, but still get plenty of partial credit and did fine in the class -- and they didn't want the choice to simulator to place into how well you did).

All that is well and good, but the OP didn't ask for PSPICE educational, she asked for PSPICE. If she was in school, and using PSPICE educational (and she would have to be to comply with the license IIRC) you would expect that the teacher would have told her where she could get it.

I guess I will have to let the OP speak for herself.

-Chuck

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The worst piece-a-crap _ever_, and still in use in many major companies :-(

...Jim Thompson

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"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Wasn't there some rumor that Cadence was going to change the ORCAD Capture backend simulator to HSpice?

:-)

Just kidding...

It would be fitting ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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| 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

EE HomePage.com has pointers to a number of SPICE variants at