Pspice for Filters and Transmission Lines

PSpice® is a software package that provides robust, advanced circuit analysis tools to improve design performance, yield, and reliability. Its capabilities enable engineers to create virtual prototypes of designs and maximize circuit performance automatically. This book is the second of a five-part series of books covering PSpice® 10.5 and all of its applications.This volume covers a range of active and passive filters where each design is simulated using the latest version (10.5) of PSpice® capture software. The active filters considered were designed using Butterworth and Chebychev approximation loss functions rather than using the 'cookbook approach' so that the final design will meet a given specification in an exacting manner. Switched-capacitor filter circuits are examined and here we see how useful PSpice/Probe is in demonstrating how these filters, filter, as it were. Two-port networks are discussed as an introduction to transmission lines and, using a series of problems, we demonstrate quarter-wave and single-stub matching. The concept of time domain reflectrometry as a fault location tool on transmission lines is then examined. In the last chapter we discuss the technique of importing and exporting speech signals into a PSpice schematic using a tailored-made program Wav2ascii. This is a novel technique that greatly extends the simulation boundaries of PSpice. Various digital circuits are also examined at the end of this chapter to demonstrate the use of the bus structure and other techniques.Other books in the series:PSpice® for Circuit Theory and Electronic Devices (9781598291568)PSpice® for Analog Communications Engineering (9781598291605)PSpice® for Digital Communications Engineering (9781598291629)PSpice® for Digital Signal Processing (9781598291643)Tobin, Paul is the author of 'Pspice for Filters and Transmission Lines ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781598291582 and ISBN 1598291580.