SuperSpice is a software product that allows a user to simulate the functioning of real electronic circuits. That is, instead of spending the time and money in constructing a circuit and finding out that it does not then work when built, you use SuperSpice to construct a virtual model of the real circuit. SuperSpice allows the user to set up signal sources and plot the waveforms that circuits produce from these signal sources. This is achieved by drawing the schematic of the circuit in the SuperSpice GUI and by running simulations.

Program Philosophy

There are many features in SuperSpice that were specifically incorporated due to much experience with many alternate vendor simulation tools. Efforts has been made to minimize the effort require in achieving many functions. Most key features are just one click away. Adding models, a nightmare in some other packages, is very easy. Just a drag drop of a model file will add the file to the SuperSpice library. Unlike other programs, there is not a concept of Import/Export for spice model and subckt files in SuperSpice, so one is not locked into a propriety database SuperSpice essentially uses these standard spice3 text files as is. SuperSpice modifications done to these files are directly usable in any other standard spice engine.

Professional Analysis and Design

There are no virtual instruments in SuperSpice, that is, imitation versions of bench equipment are not provided for in SuperSpice. Whilst these devices may be appropriate for training technicians in the use of various lab equipment, they are completely unsuitable for serious design and analysis work. For example, the requirement to manually connect wires to an oscilloscope, rather then a simple test point move or click on a wire significantly slows down the speed of probing circuit nodes.