LTspice Tutorial for Beginners - Let's Simulate Electronics!

Name: LTspice Tutorial for Beginners - Let's Simulate Electronics!
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A Complete Guide from A to Z

Last updated 8/2023

English

What you'll learn

Time-domain Simulation: Transient simulation (.Tran), Initial conditions (.IC), Parameter sweep (.step),
Measure (.meas), Piecewise Linear Functions (PWL) for voltage source, Arbitrary behavioral voltage (.bv)
DC operating point (.op), DC sweep (.dc), temperature (.temp), and DC transfer function (.tf)
Frequency-domain Analysis: Fourier Theorem and Bode Plot, Small-signal transfer function
Laplace transform, AC analysis (.AC), Laplace transform by Voltage Dependent Source
Netlist and SPICE syntax
Import Third-Party Models, Sub-circuit, and Hierarchy
Worst-case Analysis: Probability distribution in LTspice, Monte Carlo, Worst-case analysis

9 sections • 37 lectures • 4h 18m total length

Course overview3:52
Lecturer self-introduction2:35
Introduction to LTspice3:40
Brief introduction to LTspice. What is LTspice? Why use LTspice?
Other versions of SPICE.
Installation
Source files in zip for download0:15
This zip file contains all LTspice files for the lectures. Updated on 2020-05-09
Please download it and unzip it to your local PC.
You can use them directly to see results in seconds.
For practice and learning purposes, it would be a great idea to create your simulation files from scratch.
Reference3:55
Good reference for LTspice, including websites, books, and 3rd party tutorials.

Note that the LTspice group has been moved to https://groups.io/g/LTspice
LTspice LTspice@groups.io
This group is dedicated to LTspice. It's independent from the owner of LTspice (ANALOG DEVICES (ADI) / Linear Technology).
LTspice is a free SPICE program for electronic circuit simulation.
The old LTspice group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups /LTspice/info has been integrated into this group - messages, files and members have been merged. There is an additional folder with zip-files containing the files from the Yahoo group - https://groups.io/g/LTspice/files/LTspiceFiles .
Please don't attach files to your message. Instead upload attachements to the folder Temp - https://groups.io/g/LTspice/files/Temp .
Don't discuss in the topic "New file uploaded ...". The messages in this topic will be regulary deleted. Instead start a new topic with a useful subject title.

Basic knowledge of circuit analysis
A windows PC with the latest LTspice installed (Sorry! I will NOT use MAC OS in the course)

Updates:

On 06/09/2021: Lecture "Small-signal transfer function and Laplace transform" is updated to correct a typo in slides
On 01/05/2021: The zip file of all source files is updated to include newly added "Variable Resistor" simulation files
On 01/05/2021: A new lecture about "Variable Resistor" is uploaded. Thanks to William for his suggestion
On 05/09/2020: The zip file of all source files is updated to include two more missing LTspice files. Thanks to Robert
On 05/04/2020: Video and Lecture notes of "Fourier Theorem and Bode Plot" is updated to correct a typo. Thanks to Kris
On 05/04/2020: Lecture note of "types of dc sweep" is updated to correct a few typos. Thanks to Kris for pointing it out
On 04/15/2020: Fourier Theorem and Bode Plot_update.pdf has been uploaded to correct some reference links on the slides
On 03/03/2020: Videos are available in 1080p resolution.
On 03/03/2020: A typo in DC transfer function (.tf) slides is fixed. Thanks to Zhengzhong Zhao for pointing it out
On 01/07/2020: A new lecture about "Display op in transient simulation" is created
On 12/03/2019: The voltage pulse setup is updated according to the latest LTspice requirement: Lec 6 - Transient simulation (.Tran)
On 08/31/2019: A typo is corrected in both video and slides: Lec 17 - Small-signal transfer function and Laplace transform.

Up-to-date LTspice source files: "Download_LTspice Beginner_2021-01-05.zip"

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LTspice tutorial that covers the most commonly used functions: such as transient, AC analysis, dc transfer functions, Laplace transform, sub-circuit, worst-case analysis, and more
Well-prepared and self-explanatory slides in PDF are downloadable. Use it as good reference for your daily work.
LTspice source files are downloadable. Run and see results in seconds.
All materials are based on the windows PC! Sorry Mac OS users!!