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An Overview of Analog and Mixed-Mode Circuit Simulation

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/* Setting the Simulation Parameters */
For more information on these options, see Inside Spice by Ron Kielkowski published by McGraw Hill.
=== Signal Coverage Options ===
 
The first three buttons control how often the graph view is updated while simulation results are received by the workshop. Obviously, updating the graph more often will slow down the operation of the program.
 
The option to replace old simulation results prevents the workshop from getting overly cluttered from many graphs and text simulation results.
 
Checking the "Run simulation with interactive communications" box will allow you to view the simulation results while they are being generated, and this will also allow you to pause and stop the simulation in progress. Leaving it unchecked will run the simulations in batch mode, which cannot be stopped or paused, and will not display a graph until the simulation is complete. Batch simulations are generally faster.
 
Generate extra signals will generate signals for device currents in the circuit (e.g., inductor currents) and also internal device node voltages, e.g. if a diode has a resistance, then the voltage between the actual diode and its internal resistor.
 
Generate deep results generates signals inside of subcircuits. At a minimum, subcircuit node voltages and branch currents will be enabled. If Generate Extra Signals is enabled, then the extra signals inside of subcircuits will be generated also.
 
Generate all Top-level Currents will generate all possible current signals for each node.
 
The Spice program specification allows you to modify the spice simulation engine file path.
 
The simulation data directory specifies in which directory temporary data files are written to.
 
[[Image:Info_icon.png|40px]] Click here for '''[[A Summary of SPICE Simulation Parameters]]'''.
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