Pspice and Capture 10.3, for Windows

The basic idea for running the application is to install it on your local drive using the Xweb interface. It requires about 750 MB of disk space,

Log on with local system administrator privileges.
Begin by going to the Xweb page: xweb.slac.stanford.edu.
Find the OrCAD 10.3 entry and click on "Install now", to the right.
Agree to the license requirements on the next screen.
On the following page, click on Step 1 "Install".
On the next "File Download" page, you can choose either "Run" or "Save". The first choice might be easiest. It will download the installation files and then automatically proceed to install the application. The "Save" option only downloads the installation files. You would then have to go to the location where you saved the downloaded files and doubleclick on the *.exe file, which would initiate the install.
After the download phase has completed, a "Security Warning" prompts you whether you want continue and "Run" the (installation program). Click on "Run".
The next phase involves unzipping the downloaded files, which takes several minutes, often with no window present to indicate what is happening.
On the "License Agreement" screen, click on 'Yes' to agree to the license terms.
On the "Release OrCAD 10.3 Setup" screen, skipping the licensing options, select "Install Products".
On the "License Manager Communication" screen, skipping the first option at the top, fill in the info for the three redundant license servers (which may already be the default displayed):

License Server # Port Number Host Name

1 27010 sunlics1

2 27010 sunlics2

3 27010 sunlics3
On the following "User Information" screen, enter the customary information.
After the following confirmation window, in the next "Control File Location" window, Browse to Folder:
V:\CAE\OrCAD\10.3
and select the "controlfile.txt" there.
On the "Select Products" screen, keep at most the three selected components, the ones for which we have licenses: Capture and Pspice and Unison PCB (limited availability). You will get problems later if you select Pspice A/D. In the same window, Browse to the local Folder where you want the products to be installed.
On the "Working Directory" screen, Browse to the local Folder where you plan to store your working design files.
For the "Select Program Folder" entry, the suggested defaul, "OrCAD 10.3" seems good.
After clicking through the following Installation Summary window, the installation proceeds.
Near the end of the installation process, several menu prompts appear for dealing with file types that are currently registered to other applications. This is only for being able to double-click on a Pspice-related file and have the right application invoked. It doesn't affect anything internal to Pspice-related executables and how they function. So it should be safe enough to ignore all these prompts, since resetting things may interfere with other applications.
You are then prompted whether you want to install the Adobe Acrobat reader. If you (presumably) already have it on your computer, you shouldn't need to install again.
The next pop-up message indicates that the installation program is configuring your environment. My experience is that this process takes quite a while, perhaps 2 minutes, but it does eventually end.
After completion of the installation, there should then be a Program Folder entry for OrCAD 10.3, which includes Pspice and Capture.
You can optionally inspect the environment variables that were set during the installation, or create these variables if they have to be re-created later, for any reason:

License Server #	Port Number	Host Name
1	27010	sunlics1
2	27010	sunlics2
3	27010	sunlics3

License setup

Go to area: Start/Settings/Control panel
Double-click the Systems Folder and select tab 'environment', or, for Windows XP, 'Advanced', then 'environment'.
There should be variable CDS_LIC_FILE, preferably as a system variable, set to value:
27010@sunlics1;27010@sunlics2;27010@sunlics3
There should be variable CDSROOT, set to your local, top-level, OrCAD installation Folder.

This completes the client PC installation process.

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Last updated: Nov 24, 2003