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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

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 each simulation run

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