QUCS OP AMP SIMULATOR
But requires a bit of tweaking to get going if the simulator gets into convergence issues. Qucs is quite simple to go from idea to simulated results. Replace the capacitance with a 1-uF instead and you will see that the pole now shifts downwards to expected values. In fact, the bandwidth is approximately 1 MHz, and due to the feedback we see beta MHz (feedback factor) instead as a system bandwidth.
This means that the bandwidth of the opamp itself is limiting since the opamp is far from being ideal. So what is happening? Well, in this case we use a BJT model of the operational amplifier, a model of the uA741 OP. That does not seem to be all correct compared to the expected pole, right? The expected cut-off frequency given this configuration should be something in the order of 1 / RC ~ GHz range. Further on, we see in the transient response that the inversion is there: the phase of the sinusoid is shifted 180 degrees.įrom the frequency plot we can see that the bandwidth is in the order of 200 kHz. (In the lower-right transient response we do see the effect of the offset too, hence the slight shift up and down of the two curves). The ratio between the two resistors connected to the operational amplifier is 100/50 = 2, and we can see both in the frequency plot and the time-domain plot that indeed 2 is the gain. There is a slight problematic situation for the simulation when applying a 0-V DC input and hence I added a small offset through voltage source V3. Three different simulations are added: DC (operating point), AC (frequency response), and transient (behavior in the time domain). It simulates an inverting amplifier using an operational amplifier, and a couple of passives to create a first-order pole, a low-pass filter. However, for the TSEI01 course I prepared an example file as illustrated in the figure below.
The rest of the story is a drag-and-drop exercise and a bit of playing around to find all the components needed to start the simulation.
QUCS OP AMP MAC
For ubuntu it would be something like thisĪnd for windows or mac users, at the similar level of easinicityness. QUCS is easily installed by following the steps on their home page.
QUCS OP AMP SOFTWARE
It is a commercial software but you can enjoy a 30-day trial copy.Īs mentioned in an older post on simulators we do have the QUCS (quite universal circuit simulator) as an alternative, cheap, compact simulator for quick testing of electrical circuits. In the TSEI01 Analog Electronic Circuits we use the National Instruments Design Suite.
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