PSPICE 10.5 Communications Problems from Capture 10.5

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cstocci@adelphia.net - 22 Dec 2005 02:32 GMT

After running some simple circuits within Capture/PSPICE 10.5, I get
the OrCad's Capture cannot create a PSPICE netlist for the PSPICE
engine to simulate. If you go into the Session Log, it days "Unable to
initialize pspice explorer while creating netlist file." If you try to
view the netlist, you get "The PSPICE COM Wrapper error has occured"
dialog.

I have to shutdown everything, manually remove the OrCAD modules from
Windows 2K memory with the task manager and shutdown Capture. Restart
and everything is fine for a while (about 5-10 minutes), then we start
the process all over again. Every other aspect of the OrCAD 10.5 works
great, even the PSPICE, but only until this anomoly gets into the
picture.

Also, I have removed all antivirus, antispyware, etc. programs with a
clean reboot. Still the problem returns. I even removed that pesky
CTFMON.EXE TSR by Microsoft as some people indicated that can cause
problems in and of itself.

Any ideas, anyone??

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Jim Thompson - 22 Dec 2005 02:42 GMT

>After running some simple circuits within Capture/PSPICE 10.5, I get
>the OrCad's Capture cannot create a PSPICE netlist for the PSPICE
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>Any ideas, anyone??

Yep. I think I covered this before...

Uninstall OrCAD/PSpice.

Manually scrub the registry of all references to previous versions.

Re-install.

If you really want a good install, choose "Custom", and choose PSpice
Schematics.

DO NOT install Capture.

You'll thank me ;-)

Capture sucks the ultimate lemon.

...Jim Thompson

"Winners never quit, quitters never win", Jack Bradley Budnik ~1956

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Charlie Edmondson - 22 Dec 2005 20:35 GMT

>>After running some simple circuits within Capture/PSPICE 10.5, I get
>>the OrCad's Capture cannot create a PSPICE netlist for the PSPICE
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> ...Jim Thompson

What he said... 8-)

Actually, the uninstall ALL versions, do a regclean, and then reinstall
seems to fix it. Windows seems to be able to get itself confused as to
which version it is supposed to be using...

Charlie

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cstocci@adelphia.net - 23 Dec 2005 03:45 GMT

Charlie,

Did this once already and aggressively cleaned the registry. Even
cleared the Legacy Root structure. Still it comes to bother me. I
sent the problem to Manny at EDA to see if they can do anything with
the question. Also, I have noticed that this problem has existed
since, at least version 10.3, and the solution they gave (in their
Known Problems and Solutions PDF) doesn't work in this situation.

Jim is trying to get me to eliminate Capture altogether and work
strictly within Pspice schematic. I think he hates Capture. I think
it is a good package...far better than any other package I have seen to
date. I just wish they would cleanup some of the rough edges on the
Capture-to-Pspice conversion routine (pspiceexplorersvr.exe,
pspiceexplorer.dll files in particular).

CT

> >>After running some simple circuits within Capture/PSPICE 10.5, I get
> >>the OrCad's Capture cannot create a PSPICE netlist for the PSPICE
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> Charlie

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Jim Thompson - 23 Dec 2005 16:10 GMT

>Charlie,
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>CT

[snip]

The problem is that the Capture-to-PSpice-Simulator interface is a
typical OrCAD hack, while the PSpice (Microsim)
Schematics-to-PSpice-Simulator interface is the original ;-)

...Jim Thompson

"Winners never quit, quitters never win", Jack Bradley Budnik ~1956

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