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LTspice Tutorial Part 4 - Intermediate Circuits

This LTspice tutorial covers intermediate circuit analysis skills including: 1. Improving plotting techniques such as labeling nodes, differentiating nodes, and adding offsets. 2. Specifying integrated circuits (ICs) not included in the default LTspice library by updating component parameters to model a desired IC. 3. Building and simulating a basic oscillator circuit using a schmitt trigger inverter and observing its oscillating output waveform.

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LTspice Tutorial Part 4 - Intermediate Circuits

This LTspice tutorial covers intermediate circuit analysis skills including: 1. Improving plotting techniques such as labeling nodes, differentiating nodes, and adding offsets. 2. Specifying integrated circuits (ICs) not included in the default LTspice library by updating component parameters to model a desired IC. 3. Building and simulating a basic oscillator circuit using a schmitt trigger inverter and observing its oscillating output waveform.

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LTspice Tutorial

Part 4- Intermediate
Circuits
Prerequisites

● Please make sure you have completed the following:


○ LTspice tutorial part 1 (download and installation)
○ LTspice tutorial part 2 (components and basic interface)
○ LTspice tutorial part 3 (basic circuts)
Tutorial 4 Objectives

1. Improve understanding of plotting functions in LT spice


2. Learn how to specify Integrated Circuits (IC’s) for use in LTspice
3. Create a basic Oscillator circuit and observe it’s behavior
Improving plotting

● Begin with the circuit from tutorial 3


● We will plot multiple different circuits in a clearer way
To duplicate the same circuit
After duplicating
Right Click on each component and change their values as required
Labeling Nodes
To plot voltage of a certain node: you can label it if required
To differentiate two nodes of two circuits
One node can be labeled as Vout1 and the other Vout2. Type the desired name in the “Net Name”
window.
To differentiate two nodes of two circuits
Then click on the desired node that you want to label (shown below)
Running Simulation
Then click on any of the transient analysis (both are same since we are running both circuits in
the same time frame)
Probe the nodes and plot Them Together
Then click on any of the transient analysis (both are same since we are running both circuits in
the same time frame)
Probe the nodes and plot Them Together
Probing Vout1 and Vout2 will plot them in the same graph as shown below:
Adding Offset
Then by right clicking on the voltage label(from the graph) you can add offset as per the requirements
Advanced plotting

Congratulations! you have completed the advanced plotting section of the tutorial
Specifying IC’s

● Often we will want to use a component that is not in a default LTspice library
○ We can make these components ourselves
○ OR we can tweak the specifications of an existing component (much much easier)
Specifying IC’s

● We want to model a schmitt inverter, but “CD40106B” (official IC number in our kit) is not
in LTspice
● Solution: update default schmitt trigger model
Specifying IC’s
● Begin by opening a new model and inserting a component called “schmitinv” into it
Specifying IC’s
● Right click on the model and update the “Value” column with the info you need
○ Vhigh=9 Vt=4.45 Vh=.85 Trise=.1u Tfall=.1u
○ NOTE: this assumes you are giving the IC a 9V power supply- these values will change at
different supply voltages or for other IC’s. Please check datasheets to verify!
Specifying IC’s

Congratulations! You have now customized a general IC to use for your own circuits
Building an Oscillator Circuit
● Now we will build an Oscillator circuit
● Note the initial condition must be set as well
Building an Oscillator Circuit
● You will need to use the previous Schmitt inverter settings
● You will need to select a diode from the premade options
○ For best results select diode 1N914
Building an Oscillator Circuit
● Build the circuit and probe the inverted output of the schmitt inverter
● Run an analysis and get a plot similar to this
Building an Oscillator Circuit
● Congratulations! You have built and analyzed an oscillator in LTspice

Assignment:

Build 2 different oscillators

1. 9V pp, 1Khz, 40% duty cycle


2. 9Vpp , 10 Khz, 20% duty cycle

Hint(try changing the values of the capacitors and resistors and see what happens)

Submit the plots and circuit diagrams to showing your solution

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