RF.Spice A/D: Getting Started

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Welcome to RF.Spice A/D Wiki!

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RF.Spice A/D is a powerful simulation environment for analysis and design of analog, digital, RF and mixed-mode circuits. Rather than designing and testing circuits with real physical components in a laboratory with expensive test equipment, RF.Spice A/D allows you to perform realistic and accurate simulations of your circuits without clipping wires or splashing solder. With RF.Spice A/D, editing and simulating circuits is a quick, easy, even enjoyable, process.


RF.Spice A/D consists of a number of tightly integrated components:

  • Parts Database
  • SPICE Simulation Engine(s)
  • Data Manager
  • Device Editor
  • Symbol Editor


Schematic Editor occupies the main window, where you assemble your circuit. A circuit is made up of parts like resistors, capacitors, transistors, voltage and current sources, logic gates, etc. RF.Spice A/D comes with a very large Parts Database, featuring thousands of passive and active devices including generic models and real parts supplied by major semiconductor device manufacturers. Active device models include no less than six distinct MOSFET models including BSIM3 and BSIM4, models for switches, several transmission line models, and many more.

Once your circuit is ready for simulation, B2.Spice generates a Netlist input and calls its SPICE engine(s). B2.Spice A/D supports the full Berkeley SPICE 3F5 set of commands, options and models. This includes a variety of simulation types such as DC and AC sweeps, transient and Fourier analyses, Monte Carlo and sensitivity analyses, pole-zero and distortion analyses, and more. RF.Spice A/D also incorporates a large number of black-box blocks from XSPICE such as differentiator, integrator and s-domain transfer function blocks and mutual coupling for transformer modeling. Event-driven digital simulation is fully supported as well as A/D and D/A bridge models for mixed-mode simulation. With B2.Spice A/D you can perform live simulations, where output data are generated and animated as the simulation proceeds. You can vary the circuit parameters in real time during a live simulation. You can also run a large variety of tests (DC bias, AC, transient, etc.) and visualize, manipulate and process the output data in the form of graphs or tables.


The RF.Spice A/D application installer installs two separate executable programs on your computer:


The Workshop is what you will frequently use to create and edit circuits, set up and run simulations, and view your simulation results. The Workshop integrates the schematic editor, simulation engines and data manager. The Device Editor is used for defining or importing new parts or modifying those already in the parts bin. B2.Spice's large parts database should be sufficient for most practical circuits. However, you can customize and expand the database to meet your growing analysis and design needs. The Device Editor has an integrated Symbol Editor with an array of drawing tools, which you can use to create new device symbols or modify the existing ones.


System Requirements

  • A Pentium P5 or later processor
  • 1 GB RAM minimum
  • Microsoft Windows 7 or 8 operating system


Installation

Download and run the executable installer program from the download link that is provided to you by EMAG Technologies Inc. and follow the installer instructions step by step.


License

The RF.Spice A/D application comes with a node-locked license that works only on the computer for which it was originally generated. After you install RF.Spice A/D on your computer and try to start the program for the first time, it pops up an error message saying it could not locate the license file. This message also displays one or more MAC Addresses specific to the computer on which you have installed the RF.Spice A/D application. A MAC address is a 12-character string that is a combination of letters and numbers. You need to email this MAC address to us so we can generate a license file for you. Once you receive the ".LIC" license file from us, place it in the "Licenses" folder of your installation directory. You are now set to go!

 

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