Introduction: *PSpice(Personal Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) is a simulation tool that is world renowned and used as an industry standard in the design, simulation, and implementation of analog circuitry and mixed signal circuits. PSpice allows an engineer to calculate complex node voltages, branch currents at each frequency across the circuit design, and allows the engineer to generate waveform plots for further analysis. With PSpice and engineer can perform the following tasks:

DC Sweep: which allows the change of component values (such as resistor values, current, and voltage) and graph the results. AC Sweep: Analyze the frequency response of a circuit(gain and phase). Transient Analysis: Set a time period and analyze the response of your circuit.

Along with analyzing circuit analysis PSpice goes beyond, by allowing engineers to also perform temperature and stress analyses on their design and perform event-driven simulations with the programs extensive library of pre-modeled parts. Below are some advanced simulations that can be used within PSpice.

Sensitivity: Allows the engineer to test circuit performance across the minimum and maximum tolerances for different component values and identify which components are critical to the design of the engineer. Monte Carlo: Performs statistical Monte Carlo analysis on multiple components varied across their tolerance ranges to help predict the engineers production yield under different conditions. This can be used to identify which parts can have their tolerances widened, reducing Cost without sacrificing performance. Smoke(Stress): Identify increases in junction temperature, secondary break- downs, power-dissipation stresses, and voltage/current Violation. Optimizer: Automatically optimize analog circuits and systems to find the best component values for your performance goals and constraints. Parametric Plotter: Analyze/sweep multiple design and model parameters at Once in plot or tabular form.

As you can see from the above the PSpice program is an invaluable program used by electrical engineers around the world. Rather than having to physically build circuits on a breadboard and running tests with other machines after the design. PSpice enables the engineer to go from schematic capture intro prototyping via the program and make the necessary changes in the schematic as improvements are identified in the design.

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Here’s what you’ ll need to do:

Step 1: Navigate to https://www.orcad.com

Step 2: Navigate to Resources--->OrCad Academic Program or How To Buy---> OrCad academic program.

Step 3: Enter all information

Name: First and Last name (As Shown on your student ID).
University:
Email: School email address is required.
Country ;
Upload Student ID: 
# To be considered for the Academic program. You must upload your School’s ID.

# After entering all the information and agreeing to the terms and conditions for Cadence(You don’t have
# to
 check the box about being notified of new up to date information from Cadence.) click “ Submit”.

Step 4: After clicking on the submit button in step 3, You’ll receive an email from Cadence requesting for you to finish the student request. The email you will be receiving will be from “EMA Design Automation” with the subject heading “Thanks for Requesting the OrCAD Student Edition-One More Piece of Info Required”. The email will look something like the picture below(at the time of this writing).

Please note that it will take a couple of days for you to receive this email.

Step 5: Click on the yellow box that says “Finish Your Student License Request.” As shown in the picture directly above.

Step 6: You will need to once again enter your email address(The same email address that you used in step 3.) and your host ID. Hit Submit.

Please be well aware that it will take a few weeks to a month before you hear anything back from Cadence after # this step

Step 7: Once you have received the OrCAD Student License email with the subject heading of “OrCAD Student License- Your Full Name”, you have successfully registered for the OrCAD Academic Program.

Please note that the email will NOT be showing the name of EMA Design Automation, as it was in step 4 it will # # be directly from a person with a server domain of [email protected].

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Installing the Software

Step 1: After receiving your OrCAD Student License. The Email should look similar as the picture to the left. Click on http://support.cadence.com

Step 2: Since this will be your first time for Cadence you will need to Register for log-in credentials.

Step 3: On the following page you will need to enter your email address (This will be the same email address you used when you registered for the education license). Select English as your Site Language and lastly, agree to the Terms of Use. Then Click on Accept and continue. Step 4: After clicking on “Accept and Continue”. You will be sent an OTP (One Time Pin) to the email address you entered in step 3. Enter the OTP in the proper field and create a new password. Some rules in creating your password. Must be between 6 and 30 characters. Must contain one Upper and lower case Must contain at least one number. Must not contain a space Must not contain parts of your username; For example, in [email protected], the password cannot contain abc, 123, gmail, xyz, and com.

Step 5: On the following page you will then be asked to enter either your Cadence License Server Host ID or the Reference Key. The Reference key can be found in the email you were sent in step one.

Step 6: Once you have Successfully created your login credentials. Navigate back to http://support.cadence.com/ and login, once you’re logged in, go to the software tab and a drop window will appear scroll down and click on “Download Software”.