Lab 2 - Circuit Analysis and Pspice

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FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering


ECE 3300 – Circuit Analysis

Lab 2 - Circuit Analysis and PSpice

Student 1 Student 2

Name Muneeb Azher Mohammad Shahbaaz

Student ID 201939162 201865151

Date October 5, 2020


3.1 First look at PSpice

This is the schematic of the first circuit (Figure 1), with labeled nodes 1 and 2 and
reference node 0 at the bottom. Using the PSpice bias point command in simulation, the
associated voltages, currents, and power of each element is shown. Using the numbers
given for power, we can verify that power delivered is equal to the power absorbed in
the circuit.

The figure below is using the VPRINT1 parts to measure node voltages 1 and 2.
This is the trace of the node voltages 1 and 2. For voltage at node 1 (in green), it is
approximately 20.86 Volts. For voltage at node 2 (in red), it is approximately 14.08
Volts. Values remain constant.

Using IPRINT and VPRINT2 parts to measure unknown currents and voltages for each
resistor and other suitable places in the circuit.
According to the output file, it displays the voltage and current as read by the IPRINT
and VPRINT 2 components. For example, in the figure above, it gives the voltage and
time for “ V(Output, 0)” which means voltage from “output” to node 0. The associated
voltage is 12.80 volts. This value is equivalent to the voltage of the 10 ohm resistor.
This is the second circuit (figure 2), with labeled nodes c, a, and b, where b is equivalent
to the reference (ground) node. The same steps as shown in the previous circuit are
applied here. This time, there are two VPRINT1 components at node c and node a
respectively, to print out the associated node voltages in the output file. The calculated
voltage, current, and power are shown in the circuit upon running the PSpice simulation.
Using the associated power values, the total power delivered is equal to the total power
absorbed; this can be shown by summing all the powers for each individual element.
There is also an IPRINT component to show the current of the voltage source with the
flipped polarity in the output file.
This is the output file for the associated circuit (as seen on the previous page). Both
voltages for nodes C and A are 9.6 Volts, while the current passing from the ground
node to the 12 Volt voltage source (flipped polarity) is 2.4 Amperes.
3.2 Dependent Sources

This is the simulation for the circuit shown in Figure P4.101 in the textbook (11th
edition). The node voltages are shown in the simulation. For the 50 Volt Voltage Source,
the power developed is equal to 125.5 miliwatts (0.1255 watts). This value can be
obtained by multiplying the current with the voltage; 2.511 mA x 50 V = 125.5 mW.
3.3 DC Sweep Analysis

This is the circuit constructed (as shown in Figure 3 of the lab manual) to conduct the
DC sweep analysis. The Voltage source, V8, is varying from 0 to 100 volts, with an
increment of 1 volt. We can measure the power variation of the 50 ohm resistor and use
this data to plot it on a graph (as seen on the next page).
This graph plots the power (y-axis) vs voltage (x-axis) graph of the 50 ohm resistor. As
the voltage increases by 1, so does the power. At the maximum voltage (100 volts) the
power is approximately equal to 210 watts.

4.0 Conclusion
From this experiment, we learned how to create and simulate a constructed circuit by
ourselves using OrCAD PSpice. As we were conducting various types of analysis, we
got to understand their output using the voltage and current calculated from the
software. We also determined the desired results and understood how to get the most
feasible results by comparing them with the calculations that we obtained in the prelab.

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