which version of pspice matches the following book?

hi all I have been told "spice a guide to circuit simulation and analysis using pspice" is a classic book for learning pspice, but when I read the book, I found it is almost impossible to implement the book example in my ORCAD 9.2, I am really wanting to read through this book since it is classic, so can anyone tell me which version Pspice match this book, I am current in windows and I will prefer windows version if possible, otherwise, linux version is fine to me too. Thanks a lot

I've never looked at a spice book.. I've only read the documentation that comes with the software. I also look at the provided sample circuits that also come with the software.

D from BC

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Hello,

This book has been published before Orcad bought PSPICE from Microsim. Most probably it was written when PPSICE 8 was available, the last version from Microsim.

The text based netlist examples will practically run in any SPICE simulator. If you have ORCAD 9.2, you have to enter the schematics again. This way you also prcatice schematic drawing. The bad thing is that 9.2 is outdated too. Now they have version 10.5 as far as I know.

If you just want learn and use SPICE, you could use the free LTspice. It's unlimited and has similar functionality plus it provides a lot of models for the SMPS-ICs from LTC.

Best regards, Helmut

MicroSim PSpice... before OrCAD and Capture (gag me with a spoon).

...Jim Thompson

All versions of PSpice will run ASCII text net lists. PSpice expects an extention of .CIR for text net lists. If you look at all the files that are created when you run PSpice, you will see that the schematic program generates text net lists that PSpice reads in. LTspice, as well as any other spice program, will read text files.

Learn to deal with ASCII text net lists for spice. It's handy when you need to trouble shoot problems and create special subcircuits.

Mark