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LTspice Tutorial Part 3 - Basic Circuits

This section assigns the task of creating three RC circuits with different time constants and voltage amplitudes/offsets to generate three target waveforms. Learners are instructed to change resistor and capacitor values to achieve the desired time constant and offset for each circuit, and to submit the circuit schematics and plotted waveforms.

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LTspice Tutorial Part 3 - Basic Circuits

This section assigns the task of creating three RC circuits with different time constants and voltage amplitudes/offsets to generate three target waveforms. Learners are instructed to change resistor and capacitor values to achieve the desired time constant and offset for each circuit, and to submit the circuit schematics and plotted waveforms.

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LTspice tutorial

Part 3- Basic 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)
Tutorial 3 Objectives

1. Learn how to make a basic circuit in LTspice


2. Learn how to use LTspice’s circuit analysis tools
3. Determine the time constant of an RC circuit
Basic circuit creation
● Begin by opening LTspice and creating a new schematic
Basic circuit creation
● Now we will import our circuit components
a. Ground
b. Resistor
c. Capacitor
Basic circuit creation
● Now we will import the voltage supply
a. Select “components”
b. Type “voltage” in the pop up box
c. Hit okay
Basic circuit creation
● Now specify the values of your components
○ Right click on them a and fill in the appropriate value

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Basic circuit creation
● Connect your circuit components using the wire tool
● Use the move and drag tool to move components
● Use the rotate and flip tools as needed (ctrl+R) is an easy shortcut to rotate

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Basic circuit creation
Congratulations! Your first circuit is complete and should look like
this:

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Basic Circuit Analysis
● Begin by creating a new analysis

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Basic Circuit Analysis
● We will need to set the parameters of our analysis
○ Recommended settings: Transient sweep start time 0 end time 1
○ The start and end times are up to you and can vary a lot from problem to problem

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Basic Circuit Analysis
● Now we will need to run our analysis, be patient this will take some time
○ This is done by hitting the “run” button again
○ If simulation parameters need to be changed, right click the analysis object on the model

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Basic Circuit Analysis
● An empty plot will appear once the analysis is complete

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Basic Circuit Analysis
● Select the node on the circuit you want to probe and its waveform (called a trace) will
appear on the plot
○ Multiple nodes can be selected, resulting in multiple traces being plotted

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Basic Circuit Analysis
● That's not right
○ We expect an exponential, but we don’t
● Need to set initial condition
○ edit-> SpiceDirectives-> type “.ic V(n002)=0”-> hit ok
○ .ic V(n002)=0 -> initial condition of Voltage of node 002 is 0
○ We do this because LT spice doesn't assume nodes are at 0 when the simulation starts

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Basic Circuit Analysis
● Once a trace is plotted, algebraic manipulations can be performed with the waveform by right clicking it
○ Example: We can subtract voltages to do KVL

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● We do this by right clicking on the trace label on the top of the plot then entering the expression we
want to plot
● We can do basic algebraic operations using both different traces as well as constants
● We can rename nodes to make this process easier as well (this is covered in more detail in tutorial 4)
Basic Circuit Analysis
● Just like an oscilloscope we may need to change the scaling to see good data. This is done
by right clicking the axis and changing the limits

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● Now we can see the waveform we want

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Basic Circuit Analysis

Congratulations! You have completed your first analysis of a circuit in LTspice!


Performing basic RC circuit analysis

Assignment Submit plots and circuit schematics of the following 3 waveforms:

Create 3 RC circuits, and display their waveforms (hint change resistor and capacitor values to
see what happens)

Waveform 1: Time constant 500 ms, 5V amplitude, 0V offset

Waveform 2: Time constant 200 ms, 2V amplitude, 10V offset

Waveform 3: next page


Performing basic RC circuit analysis
Assignment:

Create 3 RC circuits, and display their waveforms (hint change resistor and capacitor values to
see what happens)

Waveform 3: right click on the voltage source, go to advanced settings and configure the source
as below, and plot the voltage across the capacitor

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