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Article #8269Re: Filter simulation in Pspice
From: James W. Swonger
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 1990 19:08
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 1990 19:08
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The Large Resistor To Ground trick is one of the most straightforward ways of improving convergence. You may be able to explicitly set initial conditions on your PSpice element cards (current for inductors, voltage for caps). If you know the initial conditions this should help quite a bit. Also see whether PSpice has a store/restore capability with which you can save the DC solution and use it to initialize the circuit state for the next. Finally, see what you have available to you as far as setting the number of DC iterations, required tolerances for "convergence", etc. You may just need more iterations. Note also that a filter with only AC components is going to be hard to solve for a computer - any error is going to make everything "sing". Try putting large resistors in parallel with the caps and very small resistors in series with the inductors (small being a judgment call based on frequency of interest). This may provide a means for the errors to damp out.
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