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Re: PSpice Logic Levels

That's tedious to use in a situation with a very large number of transitions.

What I've done in PSpice is take a digital stimulus, say...

110000101011100010....

and feed it thru a magic part that converts it to a pulse train with defined high and low level voltages, and defined rise/fall (all specified via parameter passing, avoiding tedious and error-prone manual value entries).

And it works even when the digital stream may be unpredictable, as in, for example, a delta modulator.

...Jim Thompson

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> Jim Thomps> > Along the lines of the question regarding LTspice logic levels... > > > > PSpice has a number of nice digital stimulus "parts", but they kick > > out _very_fast_ edges at 0-5V logic levels when connected to analog > > parts. > > > > Can't you set trise and tfall as one can in LTSpice? I just didn't know > where but one kind reader and Helmut explained it.

Is that a Piece-Wise Linear (PWL) source?

Vxxxx N+ N- PWL(T1 V1 )

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I was thinking about using a macro for converting complex pulse train specifications into a PWL statement. Or a tool with a GUI to enter the waveform.

It works as long as you can define the smallest common interval for your pulse train and then enter enough 1's and 0's to fill up long stretches with no change.

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I used behavioral modeling techniques.

My approach needs no such information ;-)

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