Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TINA-TI, THS4551
I just installed PSpice. I wanted to see if it was easier to work with than TINA-TI.
It comes with a library of generic parts and a short list of TI components. One of the parts it does not have is the THS-4521 FDA. It has it's two bigger siblings, the 4522 and 4524.
I hit e2e trying to see if anyone else had noticed it missing (to see what the solution was) and found a link where some engineer said that instead of using the 4521, we should be using the 4551. I thought "hmm, maybe that's valid advice since the 4521 has been around for a while". The THS-4551 was not in the brand new, freshly installed PSpice for TI library either. Neither is the ADS-1278.
So clearly, the library needs a refresh. According to the installed help (from cadence), opening Capture should trigger a refresh. Well none of the screens or panels are called "Capture" but the outdated graphic implied that I should be opening the tool for editing schematics. Another forum post suggested doing a restart.
I searched every menu item looking for an kind of manual trigger to "refresh the TI libraries". I did not spot one. IF it exists, where is it hiding?
I searched the list that navigating through Help->Known Problems and Solutions brings up. That is is fairly short and none of them appear to involve a lack of inventory refresh.
I shut down and reopened PSpice. This triggered a library update only once (on the second-ever launch). That said it had 135 new components to load in. I thought "Great!". Then I went looking and none of the missing products were added during the refresh. I tried creating a new project in order to get a whole new schematic. Those parts (and probably many many others) are missing from the tool's catalog of parts.
I'm using "PSpice for TI 2020" version 17.4-2020-S002. It should be up-to-date.
What step(s) did I miss and how can I fix it?
Thanks,
Shawn