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SPICE

Second Edition

Gordon Roberts and Adel Sedra

Price: £26.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-510842-2
Publication date: 21 November 1996
464 pages, 405 line illus., 234x189 mm
Series: The Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Description
  • Over 100 SPICE examples
  • Problems at the end of each chapter
  • Can be used on any circuits course with any main text - it is a generic SPICE manual
  • SPICE topics correspond chapter by chapter with the introductory textbook by Sedra and Smith, entitled Microelectronic Circuits, 3/E .
  • SPICE files included in this text are available on the World-Wide-Web via http://www.macs.ee.mcgill.ca/~roberts/
Today, most, if not at all, microelectronic circuit design is carried out with the aid of a computer-aided circuit analysis program such as SPICE. SPICE, an acronym for Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis , is considered by many to be the de-facto industrial standard for computer-aided circuit analysis for microelectronic circuits, mainly because it is used by the majority of IC designers in North America today. It is reasonable to say that to master electronic circuit design, one must also develop a fair amount of expertise in a circuit analysis program such as SPICE. It is therefore our aim in this text to describe how SPICE is used to analyse microelectronic circuits, and more importantly, outline how SPICE is used in the process of design itself.
There is a tendency for new designers of electronic circuits to be overwhelmed by the analysis capability of a circuit analysis program such as SPICE, and ignore the thought-process provided by a hand analysis using simple models for the transistors. Experience has shown that this generally leads to poor designs because most of the design effort is spent blindly searching for ways to improve the design using a brute-foce hit-and-miss approach. It is our intention in this book to avoid this pitfall and teach the reader what not to do with SPICE. This is accomplished by keying each example of this text to those presented in Microelectronic Circuits, Third Edition , by Sedra and Smith, where a complete hand analysis is provided. In this way, the insight provided by a hand analysis is readily available to our readers. All examples in this text are also available on-line via the world-wide-web site http://www.macs.ee.mcgill.ca/~roberts/ .

Readership: This revised and updated text is used in core electronic circuits courses as well as courses in circuit analysis and signals and systems for students who are electrical and computer engineering majors.

Contents
Preface
1. Introduction to Spice
1.1. Computer Simulation of Electronic Circuits
1.2. An Outline of Spice
1.2.1. Types of Analysis Performed by Spice
1.2.2. Input to Spice
1.2.3. Output from Spice
1.3. Output Post-Processing Using Probe
1.4. Examples
1.4.1. Example 1: DC Node Voltages of a Linear Network
1.4.2. Example 2: Transient Response of a 3-Stage Linear Amplifier
1.4.3. Example 3: Setting Circuit Initial Conditions During a Transient Analysis
1.4.4. Example 4: Frequency Response of a Linear Amplifier
1.5. Spice Tips
1.6. Bibliography
1.7. Problems
2. Operational Amplifiers
2.1. Modeling an Ideal Op Amp with Spice
2.2. Analyzing the Behavior of Ideal Op Amp Circuits
2.2.1. Inverting Amplifier
2.2.2. The Miller Integrator
2.2.3. A Damped Miller Integrator
2.2.4. The Unity-Gain Buffer
2.2.5. Instrumentation Amplifier
2.3. Nonideal Op Amp Performance
2.3.1. Small-Signal Frequency Response of Op Amp Circuits
2.3.2. Modeling the Large-Signal Behavior of Op Amps
2.4. The Effects of Op Amp Large-Signal Nonidealities on Closed-Loop Behavior
2.4.1. DC Transfer Characteristic of an Inverting Amplifier
2.4.2. Slew-Rate Limiting
2.4.3. Other Op Amp Nonidealities
2.5. Spice Tips
2.6. Bibliography
2.7. Problems
3. Diodes
3.1. Describing Diodes to Spice
3.1.1. Diode Element Description
3.1.2. Diode Model Description
3.2. Spice as a Curve Tracer
3.2.1. Extracting the Small-Signal Diode Parameters
3.2.2. Temperature Effects
3.3. Zener Diode Modeling
3.4. A Half-Wave Rectifier Circuit
3.5. Limiting and Clamping Circuits
3.6. Spice Tips
3.7. Problems
4. Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJTs)
4.1. Describing BJTs to Spice
4.1.1. BJT Element Description
4.1.2. BJT Model Description
4.1.3. Verifying NPN Transistor Circuit Operation
4.2. Using Spice as a Curve Tracer
4.3. Spice Analysis as a Curve Tracer
4.3.1. Transistor Modes of Operation
4.3.2. Computing DC Bias of a PNP Transistor Circuit
4.4. BJT Transistor Amplifiers
4.4.1. BJT Small-Signal Model
4.4.2. Single-Stage Voltage-Amplifier Circuits
4.5. DC Bias Sensitivity Analysis
4.6. The Common-Emitter Amplifier
4.7. Spice Tips
4.8. Bibliography
4.9. Problems
5. Field-Effect Transistors (FETs)
5.1. Describing MOSFETs to Spice
5.1.1. MOSFET Element Description
5.1.2. MOSFET Model Description
5.1.3. An Enhancement-Mode N-Channel MOSFET Circuit
5.1.4. Observing the MOSFET Current - Voltage Characteristics
5.2. Spice Analysis of MOSFET Circuits at DC
5.2.1. An Enhancement-Mode P-Channel MOSFET Circuit
5.2.2. A Depletion-Mode P-Channel MOSFET Circuit
5.2.3. A Depletion-Mode N-Channel MOSFET Circuit
5.3. Describing JFETs to Spice
5.3.1. JFET Element Description
5.3.2. JFET Model Description
5.3.3. An N-Channel JFET Example
5.3.4. A P-Channel JFET Example
5.4. FET Amplifier Circuis
5.4.1. Effect of Bias Point on Amplifier Conditions
5.4.2. Small-Signal Model of the FET
5.4.3. A Basic FET Amplifier Circuit
5.5. Investigating Bias Stability with Spice
5.6. Integrated-Circuit MOS Amplifiers
5.6.1. Enhancement-Load Amplifiers Including the Body Effect
5.6.2. CMOS Amplifier
5.7. MOSFET Switches
5.8. Describing MESFETs to PSpice
5.8.1. MESFET Element Description
5.8.2. MESFET Model Description
5.8.3. Small-Signal MESFET Model
5.8.4. A MESFET Biasing Example
5.9. Spice Tips
5.10. Bibliography
5.11. Problems
6. Differential and Multistage Amplifiers
6.1. Input Excitation for the Differential Pair
6.2. Small-Signal Analysis of the Differential Amplifier: Symmetric Conditions
6.3. Small-Signal Analysis of the Differential Amplifier: Asymmetric Conditions
6.4. Current-Source Biasing in Integrated Circuits
6.5. A BJT Multistage Amplifier Circuit
6.6. Spice Tips
6.7. Bibliography
6.8. Problems
7. Frequency Response
7.1. Investigating Transfer Function Behavior Using PSpice
7.2. Modeling Dynamic Effects in Semiconductor Devices
7.3. The Low-Frequency Response of the Common-Source Amplifier
7.4. High-Frequency Response Comparison of the Common-Emitter and Cascode Amplfiers
7.5. High-Frequency Response of the Common Emitter and Cascode Amplifiers
7.6. Spice Tips
7.7. Problems
8. Feedback
8.1. The General Feedback Structure
8.2. Determining Loop Gain with Spice
8.3. Stability Analysis Using Spice
8.4. Investigating the Range of Amplifier Stability
8.5. The Effect of Phase Margin on Transient Response
8.6. Frequency Compensation
8.7. Spice Tips
8.8. Bibliography
8.9. Problems
9. Output Stages and Power Amplifiers
9.1. Emitter-Follower Output Stage
9.2. Class B Output Stage
9.3. Spice Tips
9.4. Problems
10. Analog Integrated Circuits
10.1. A Detailed Analysis of the 741 Op Amp Circuit
10.2. A CMOS Op Amp
10.3. Spice Tips
10.4. Bibliography
10.5. Problems
11. Filters and Tuned Amplifiers
11.1. The Butterworth and Chebyshev Transfer Functions
11.2. Second-Order Active Filters Based on Inductor Replacement
11.3. Second-Order Active Filters Based on the Two-Integrator-Loop Topology
11.4. Tuned Amplifiers
11.5. Spice Tips
11.6. Bibliography
11.7. Problems
12. Signal Generators and Waveform - Shaping Circuits
12.1. Op Amp-RC Sinusoidal Oscillators
12.1.1. The Wien-Bridge Oscillator
12.1.2. An Active-Filter-Tuned Oscillator
12.2. Multivibrator Circuits
12.3. Precision Rectifier Circuits
12.4. Spice Tips
12.5. Bibliography
12.6. Problems
13. MOS Digital Circuits
13.1. NMOS Inverter with Enhancement Load
13.2. NMOS Inverter with Depletion Load
13.3. The CMOS Inverter
13.4. A Gallium-Arsenide Inverter Circuit
13.5. Spice Tips
13.6. Problems
14. Bipolar Digital Circuits
14.1. Transistor-Transistor Logic (TTL)
14.2. Emitter-Coupled Logic (ECL)
14.3. BiCMOS Digital Circuits
14.4. Bibliography
14.5. Problems
Appendix A.
A.1. Diode Model
A.2. BJT Model
A.3. JET Model
A.4. MOSFET Model
A.5. MESFET Model
A.6. Bibliography
Appendix B.
Index

Authors, editors, and contributors


Gordon Roberts, Professor of Electrical Engineering, McGill University and
Adel Sedra, Vice President and Provost and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto


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