How to Make a Damped Sinusoidal Source in PSPICE

So, I have been trying to verify my work recently...since I am now in the realm where solutions manuals are sparse and most problems are the product of a 30 year professor's imagination.

With that, I had a network that had a damped sinusoidal source and I wanted to verify my calculations.  What to do?

• Select the VSIN source from the SOURCE library
• Select the source (it should turn pink)
• Right click and select Edit Properties (or you could just double click the source)
• There are a few parameters you should be concerned with: DF, FREQ, PHASE, and VAMPL.
• If you're source looks like A*e^-Ct*cos(wt + phi) then you can update these values in the Property Editor:
• DF = C (don't put a negative, PSPICE assumes that the "damping factor" is the coefficient of the "e" exponent)
• VAMPL = A
• FREQ = w/(2*pi)
• PHASE = phi +/- 90 (if your source is a cosine)
• DONE!

 Now, you may have some other parameters that you need to update and that's fine.  This post isn't meant to be a tell all for sources.  However, the golden nugget of information is the DF parameter in the VSIN source.  If you have a better or alternative way then please leave a comment.