B2 Spice v5 is the latest version of the popular and powerful mixed mode EDA (Electronic Design Automation) simulator, with new standards in ease-of-use, power, and capabilities. B2 Spice contains a plethora of additional features, from complex digital circuits to radio frequency simulation and PCB design and includes a standard library of over 25,000 parts. There's no limit on the size of your design and results are easy to understand and interpret.
Highlights:* Intuitive User Interface - toolbar, tab, and button driven for more intuitive control
* Virtual Instruments - oscilloscope, ammeter, voltmeter, wattmeter, distortion meters, and MORE.
* "Live Circuit" Parameters that can be altered as a simulation is running. Results displayed on virtual instruments or on the schematic via circuit animation
* Parts Browser with customizable Parts Palette
* Curve Tracer to plot the behavior of a device before you place it in your circuit.
* Simulation mode - continuous transient simulation
* Multiple level tests - Multiple parameter sweeps or Monte Carlo sweeps in ANY test
* "Real-world" devices model performance of actual parts such as capacitors, resistors, and inductors.
* Circuit Wizard to step you through the creation of the most commonly used circuit configurations
* Graphing module - complete control over all aspects of the graph.
* Tabbed window projects to keep all the documents in a project in one Window.
* Cross Probing that interactively updates the graph as you add or move the probes around the circuit.
* Circuit Visualization to display the actual current flow through the circuit and the relative voltage relationships by varying the wire's display color.
* Quick, easy, and intuitive schematic entry
* Export to and import from Eagle, a world leader in PCB software.
* 12 powerful tests
* 25,000 digital and analog parts including hundreds of REALISTIC behavioral models for such parts as resistors, inductors and capacitors.
* Parameterized subcircuits
* Create a part from any circuit
* Password protected defects
* Shared models
* Database editor to import and manage the library of parts
* Integrated symbol editor to create custom device symbols
* Improved schematics with DIN and ANSI symbols
* RF simulations and network analysis
* Schematic borders and title-box for professional output
* Smith and polar plots
* Intuitive, full featured schematic editor cut, copy and paste of selected items
* Undo support
* Full device rotation
* Device mirroring
* Repeat placement of a device
* Easy to draw and edit wires
* Browse-able, filterable, device libraries
* User-defined devices and symbols
* Complete macro device capability
* Rubber banding of wires and devices
* Annotation of devices
* Quick menu selection of commonly used parts
* Zoom in or out on an area or item with custom zoom factors
* Fit circuit to window function
* User-selectable colours
* Export circuit drawings and waveforms supports all Microsoft Windows driven printers and plotters
* Modification of devices and symbols in schematic
* Control over fonts and colours in schematic
* Export SPICE3 compatible net lists
* Generate SPICE3 sub circuits from the circuit
* Create part from the circuit
* View steady state results directly in the schematic
* View node numbers
* Colour coded digital wire states
* Copy circuit picture to the clipboard for pasting into other applications
* Print circuit to any output device
Library Management:
* Import your existing SPICE subcircuits and models into parts library
* Easily create and modify parts in database
* Modify symbols for the parts
* Match up symbol pins with model pins to reliably create parts
* Modify parameters for behavioural models
* Modify parameters for all Spice models
* Specify manufacturer, description, and category for parts and models
* Parts, models, and symbols are stored in a Microsoft Access database file
Parts Library of over 30,000 parts:
* All parts in Berkeley Spice 3F5 and XSpice are included in the parts library
* Many digital parts from the most popular libraries.
* Parts from vendors such as AMP, APEX, Burr-Brown, Comlinear, Elantec, Linear Technology, Maxim, Motorola, National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, and more.
* Many types of parts specified as subcircuits including Zener diodes, power MOSFET’s, operational amplifiers
* Many types of digital parts, including gates, inverters, counters, registers, buffers, coder/decoders, mux/demuxes, and more.
Additional parts specified at a behavioural level including:
* Analogue phase locked loop, continuous S domain transfer function, peak detector, sample and hold circuit, Schmitt trigger/ bistable network, voltage noise source, current noise source, piecewise linear system, discrete time Z domain transfer function, and operational amplifier.
* These behaviour model parts can be customized from their behavioural parameters:
Resistor, Capacitor, Inductor, Coupled inductors, diode, switches, Bjt, jfet, mosfet (all 6 models), mesfet, lossless transmission line, lossy transmission line, uniform RC line, Controlled sources, voltage and current sources.
* Arbitrary source which can be used to model non-linear resistors and other parts.
* Parameterised sub circuits give you the ability to alter sub circuit part behaviour.
Highly Accurate Simulations
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* Run simulation directly from schematic, or from a text window containing a spice deck 32-bit code: DC Bias, DC Sweep, AC Sweep, Transient, Monte Carlo, Noise, Distortion, Fourier, Pole/zero, sensitivity, and transfer function simulations
* Show Device and Model parameters in a text window after the simulator has calculated them.
* Full set of SPICE and XSpice options, including error tolerances, iteration limits, MOSFET defaults and more.
* Pause or stop simulation at any time.
* Digital command and vector files give you complete control over digital simulations view simulation results as the data is being collected
* Intuitive interface for setting bias point initial guess and transient initial conditions
* Multifunction signal generators (sine, single frequency FM, exponential, pulse, sawtooth, triangle, piecewise linear)
* Multimeters (measure DC or AC voltage, current)
* Unlimited number of instruments
* Full screen analogue waveform analysis
* Full screen digital trace
* View any number of waveform simultaneously
* Plot voltage, current, frequency response and dc characteristics
* View results in tables and/or graphs
* Log of simulation progress, errors, warnings, and statistics provided with eac
Graph Editor * Zoom in or out on a specific point with a magnifying glass cursor
* Stretch the plot horizontally or vertically
* Squeeze the plot horizontally or vertically
* Scroll around the graph
* Create your plots by simply entering mathematical expressions
* Value labelling of the X and Y axes for all graphics windows
* Find and label maximums and minimums
* Group plots by families or control them individually
* Measurement of differences between specific points on a graph
* Measurement cursors provide quick and accurate measurements in all analysis windows
* Non-linear math functions
* Ability to include “deep” plots of sub circuit nodes
* Highlight any plot by clicking on its name in the legend
* Zoom in on any plot in the graph by control-clicking on its name
* Unlimited number of plots
* Set plot colours
* Show or hide any plot
* Set graph font
* Set log or linear scales for x and y axes
* Set graph title
* Specify engineering or scientific notation
* Copy graph picture to the clipboard for pasting into other applications
* Print graph to any output device
B2 Spice v.5
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