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From: hwfe@ur-tut (Harlan Feinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PSPICE Demo (Part 1 of 14)
Message-ID: <1896@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 88 07:06:59 GMT
References: <2595@umd5.umd.edu> <9054@g.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: hwfe@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Harlan Feinstein)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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In article <9054@g.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>What the hell is PSPICE ?????

I was going to refrain from answering these messages, but the poster hasn't
posted the answer to this still and I suppose the suspense is killing some
people.  PSPICE is a public domain version of SPICE, which is a very
popular circuit simulator program.  Our university uses SPICE fairly
extensively (on mainframe) for analog circuits classes.  PSPICE is a micro
version, and it's absolutely amazing (it's not so hot if you don't have any
interest in electrical engineering or circuit design)...  it almost requires
a math co-processor (mostly it just runs slower without it, except there are
some parts of the program that won't run at all without the 8087 series).

You can put in quite complex circuits, and run DC, AC, and transient 
analyses... if you have an 8087 you can even run a graphics interfaces which
behaves kind of like an oscilloscope.  The only limitation that the company
has put out on this PD version is of a limited circuit size; I forget how 
big you can make the circuits, but it certainly says in the documentation.

--Harlan

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