Inside Spice with CDROM (Electronic Packaging and Interconnection Series) [Hardcover]

Ron M. Kielkowski (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0079137121 | ISBN-13: 978-0079137128 | Publication Date: February 1, 1998 | Edition: 2nd

This is a guide to the SPICE simulation program which provides practical methods for generating simulations that are fast, accurate and convergent. The accompanying CD features a Windows-compatible version of RSPICE, the author's simulator, which can be used to model circuits.

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Inside SPICE. Up-to-date methods for creating fast, accurate circuit simulations with SPICE. The complexities of SPICE - the international standard in circuit simulation software - require expert handling, Inside SPICE gives you everything necessary to create the most effective software models for simulation the behavior of real circuits. And this edition of Inside SPICE offers the most up-to-date techniques for generating faster, more accurate simulations. Inside SPICE, Second Edition is an indispensable reference tool - and a troubleshooter. It will help professionals and students analyze and work around problems typically encountered with SPICE and SPICE-like simulator programs: HSPICE, PSPICE, IS_SPICE, and MICROCAP IV. It has a new chapter on simulation trends, in addition to a new, Windows-compatible CD-ROM version of RSPICE with extensive sample models. Well-organized chapters spell out the fundamentals, including: understanding circuit simulations; nonconvergence; SPICE options; numeric integration. Packed with example circuit files.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing; 2nd edition (February 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0079137121
• ISBN-13: 978-0079137128
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,499,455 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is an excellent book, November 14, 1998

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This review is from: Inside Spice with CDROM (Electronic Packaging and Interconnection Series) (Hardcover)

This book is a must if you plan on doing any serious work with spice. It focus on the convergence of simulation rather than the circuit. So if you are looking for an introductory book, this one might be a bit too heavy. However, I like the CD rom, which includes RSpice and Rgraph. There seems to be no restriction in terms of number of devices used.

Over all, this is a very good book for engineers in practice.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Want to understand .options?, February 17, 2002

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Stanley Che (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inside Spice with CDROM (Electronic Packaging and Interconnection Series) (Hardcover)

Among all the books which I have come across about SPICE, this is about the best book you can find. Similar to any analog circuit design, setting all the optional parameters appropriately is always a game of trade-off among simulation speed, accuracy, and stability. I came across this book while I was working on a crystal oscillator. It has done a decent job in explaining the intricate spice parameters, such as timestep control options and numeric integration methods, without asking the reader to first become a mathematician. Nevertheless, finishing this book does not mean you will be able to solve all the convergence problems. In my opinion, the best approach to understanding spice is to experiment with the settings frequently to gain a true feeling of how they interact. I give it 4 stars because there are a lot of repeititions in the book, meaning that the author would often repeat a point using different sentences. If there is an important concept, state it once or twice, but not three or four times... The repetitive sentences gave me the feeling that he was worried the book might turn out to be too short. Having said that, I still recommend this book to any circuit designer who really desires to make their transient sims fast and accurate.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Costs too much, May 19, 2010

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This review is from: Inside Spice with CDROM (Electronic Packaging and Interconnection Series) (Hardcover)

I expected this book to be a rather complete, rigorous treatment of SPICE - with lots of equations describing theory and algorithms used for SPICE simulations. Never happened. It is actually a lower undergraduate-level book of "hints and tricks." It costs too much for this type of techie-help product.