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Equation Used in Simulation Software

04/01/2010 1:59 AM

Can i know how this simulation softwares(like Pspice, Psim, matlab simulink) work ? Which methods they use to solve any circuit with non-linear elements ? How can we solve any circuit numerically ?

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Re: Equation used in simulation software

04/01/2010 6:03 AM

If you mean solving algebraic functions,in PSIM there is a block called "Math Function" which will take in anywhere between one to five independent input variables.

In Simulink, the "User defined function" block can be used to solve similar functions.

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Re: Equation Used in Simulation Software

04/01/2010 7:30 AM

Actually my question is "Which method PSim software use to solve any circuit containing Inductor and Capacitor elements and non-sinusoidal waveform" ? Which algorithm that software use to solve it ??

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Re: Equation Used in Simulation Software

04/04/2010 1:24 PM

I believe some of these SPICE programs use matrices to find node voltages. See my blog. I just posted a blog on complex numbers, ohm's law, and matrices. I believe that they use the basic ohm's law in the time domain (nodal analysis, mesh currents, etc.) and input this into a big matrix for the different nodes. I'm not 100% certain, but that's the best method.

Check out my blog: TheModernEngineer.blogspot.com

I just posted something today on it.

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Re: Equation Used in Simulation Software

04/04/2010 11:56 PM

As an extension to my previous post. Here is a great site describing how it's found:
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/echeeve1/Ref/mna/MNA3.html

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Re: Equation Used in Simulation Software

04/05/2010 8:08 AM

Here is a corrected link. the above one doesn't work:[br][br]

http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/echeeve1/Ref/mna/MNA2.html

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