SmartSpice User’s Manual

SmartSpice is a high quality, commercial grade, general purpose circuit simulation program for nonlinear DC, nonlinear transient, and linear AC analyses. SmartSpice simulates a circuit by calculating the behavior of all circuit components simultaneously. Through its many reliable models, SmartSpice bases its simulation on physical properties, as well as electrical parameters, to simulate the behavior of complex circuits. It simulates circuits and subcircuits consisting of resistors, capacitors, inductors, mutual inductors, independent voltage, current sources, dependent sources, transmission lines, switches, and the five most common semiconductor devices: DIODEs, JFETs, BJTs, MOSFETs, and MESFETs. SmartSpice is the result of intensive research and development; and is superior to all commercially available circuit simulators with competitive speed, superior convergence, high accuracy, and powerful pre- and post-processing. SmartSpice is available on PC windowsbased platforms, UNIX-based platforms and Linux PC platforms.

The following supported platforms are:

• Windows XP (32 bit), Vista (32 bit or 64 bit), 7 (32 bit or 64 bit) (Our Windows applications are 32 bit for compatibility with XP. When Windows Vista is used the Program will be limited to 3GB of memory.)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6 (64 bit) The size of the circuit that SmartSpice simulates is limited only by the computer hardware and operating system.