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    This document provides instructions for performing a DC sweep simulation in PSpice. It explains that a DC sweep plots circuit voltages and/or currents as a function of a swept variable, such as a voltage or current source magnitude. It also discusses how to properly set up a DC sweep simulation, including selecting a small sweep increment to show sharp transitions clearly. The document demonstrates DC sweeps on a sample night light circuit and describes using voltage and current markers to plot multiple signals on the same graph.

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    This document provides instructions for performing a DC sweep simulation in PSpice. It explains that a DC sweep plots circuit voltages and/or currents as a function of a swept variable, such as a voltage or current source magnitude. It also discusses how to properly set up a DC sweep simulation, including selecting a small sweep increment to show sharp transitions clearly. The document demonstrates DC sweeps on a sample night light circuit and describes using voltage and current markers to plot multiple signals on the same graph.

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    This document provides instructions for performing a DC sweep simulation in PSpice. It explains that a DC sweep plots circuit voltages and/or currents as a function of a swept variable, such as a voltage or current source magnitude. It also discusses how to properly set up a DC sweep simulation, including selecting a small sweep increment to show sharp transitions clearly. The document demonstrates DC sweeps on a sample night light circuit and describes using voltage and current markers to plot multiple signals on the same graph.

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    DC Sweep

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    This document provides instructions for performing a DC sweep simulation in PSpice. It explains that a DC sweep plots circuit voltages and/or currents as a function of a swept variable, such as a voltage or current source magnitude. It also discusses how to properly set up a DC sweep simulation, including selecting a small sweep increment to show sharp transitions clearly. The document demonstrates DC sweeps on a sample night light circuit and describes using voltage and current markers to plot multiple signals on the same graph.

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    DC Sweep

    In PSpice

    DC Sweep in PSpice
    A simulation that results in a plot of

    specified voltages and/or currents in


    the circuit as a function of a
    particular variable.
    The variables that can be swept

    include the magnitude of a d.c.


    voltage or current source,
    temperature of the circuit (as most
    materials including resistors change
    their value as temperature changes),
    a model parameter which might be
    the open loop gain of an op amp, and
    a global parameter, such as the
    magnitude of a variable defined
    using the PARAM part.
    Multiple sweeps can be performed
    using the nested sweep option.

    Example:
    Circuit from Design a Night Light
    Goal:
    Perform a DC Sweep
    of the voltage on the
    positive input
    terminal of the op
    amp to show how the
    output voltage
    changes as the value
    of Vref increases
    from 0V to a value
    larger than the
    voltage on the
    negative input
    terminal, which is
    equal to the voltage

    DC Sweep
    To set up a DC sweep,

    open the Analysis Setup


    popup window and select
    DC Sweep
    Sweep Var. Type: Voltage

    Source
    Name: Vref
    Sweep Type: Linear
    Start Value: 0V
    End Value: 9V
    Increment: Should be
    sufficiently small to show
    a sharp transition

    Selection of Increment
    0.5V increment

    1mV increment

    These are two plots of the DC Sweep of Vref in the example circuit,
    where the only difference is the value used as the increment. Ideally,
    there should be a sharp transition as the output of the voltage
    comparator switches from one output level to the other . However,
    when the increment of 0.5V was used, PSpice interpolated between
    the calculated values for the output voltage of the op amp when Vref =
    5V and Vref = 5.5V. As a result, the sharp transition looks like a
    gradual transition an artifact of improper settings used during the

    Markers
    A plot will be automatically generated for the node

    voltages as a function of Vref wherever a voltage marker is


    placed in the circuit.
    Current markers must be placed at the end of a
    component the point where the blue of the component
    wire meets the green of the wire that you drew to connect
    the part to another component.
    Two voltage markers, one with a + and one with a are
    placed on the schematic when Voltage Differential is
    selected from the Marker toolbar. The difference in the
    node voltages is displayed on the plot.
    Mark Advanced contains a set of options that include
    phase angle of the voltage or current at a node.

    Markers
    Voltage and current

    markers are placed


    in the schematic by
    clicking on either:
    the Markers/Mark

    Voltage/Level or
    Mark/Mark
    Current into Pin
    or by using the
    shortcut on the
    toolbar.

    Plotting Current and


    Voltage
    More than one marker can be put into a

    schematic. However only one plot will be


    generated automatically.
    Only one scale is used per plot. If you plot the

    current flowing through the diode on the same


    graph as the output voltage of the op amp, the
    current flowing out of the op amp will look like it
    is always zero because it is a The
    maximum
    of 15
    green curve in the plot
    mA when the scale is +/- 9V. is the output voltage of the
    op amp and the red curve is
    the current flowing out of
    the op amp into the 1k
    resistor, Rlimit, connected to
    the output of the op amp.

    Rescaling Current
    Once you have a plot with

    both voltage and current,


    click on the key for the
    current located on the
    bottom left of the graph
    in this example, -I(Rlimit)
    A popup window called

    Modify Trace will open.

    In the Trace Expression


    box at the bottom, type
    *1000 next to the name
    of the current that is
    already in the box.

    Plot:
    Voltage and (rescaled) Current

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