Simulation - real-time with in-place instrument

DEX PCB Designer 2020 uses XSpice, the Spice 3.5f extension, to simulate your design

The DEX PCB Designer Spice Probe

Oscilloscopes

This is a 4 channel oscilloscope that show the signal that the terminal is connect to. You can have as many oscilloscopes as you want in your design.

Signal Generators

This is a function generator that can add sin, triangle, sawtooth, reverse sawtooth or square signals by adding 2 wires from it's terminals to wires in your design.

Charts

This is a 4 channel oscilloscope with the extra graphics removed that show the signal that the terminal is connect to. You can have as many oscilloscopes as you want in your design.

Power Supplies

This is a single output power supply. Simply connect wires from the output to wires in your circuit. You can add as many as you want to your design.

Devices

You can add all the XSpice part models you like using the Part's Property Panel.

Passive Devices

Resistors
Capacitors
Inductors
Transformers

Transistors

NPN and PNP Bipolar transistors
Depletion mode NMOS and PMOS transistors
Enhancement mode NMOS and PMOS transistors
Junction Field Effect (JFET) transistors - N and P channel
MesFET transistors - N and P channel

Transmisson Lines

Lossless
Lossy 1
Lossy 2

Diodes

Semiconductor diode
Switch

Independent Voltage Sources

DC Voltage Source
Sinusoidal Voltage Source
Pulse Voltage Source
Exponential Voltage Source
FM Voltage Source
Piece-wise Linear Voltage Source

Independent Current Sources

DC Current Source
Sinusoidal Current Source
Pulse Current Source
Exponential Current Source
FM Current Source
Piece-wise Linear Current Source

Dependent Sources

Voltage Controlled Voltage Source - VCVS
Voltage Controlled Current Source - VCCS
Current Controlled Voltage Source - CCVS
Current Controlled Current Source - CCCS

Custom

You can define your own custom model for your part.

Often you will base it on a Spice model supplied by the manufacturer of your part.

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