Daniel Pacheco

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RC circuit Monte Carlo study

Recreated course exercise · Altium Designer, MixedSim

Recreated an Altium course exercise to explore component-tolerance effects in a loaded RC circuit. Compared simulated output-voltage traces using Gaussian, uniform, and Altium’s Worst Case Monte Carlo distributions.

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Circuit

The course circuit uses a 500 Ω series resistor, a 7 µF shunt capacitor, and a 1 kΩ load. The schematic specifies a 100 Hz sinusoidal source with a 10 V offset and 10 V amplitude.

Loaded RC circuit schematic with a series resistor, shunt capacitor, and resistive load.
Loaded RC circuit recreated from the Altium course exercise. View full-size image.

Simulation results

Each screenshot shows 30 labeled output-voltage traces over 0–30 ms. The overlays illustrate variation in the simulated response for the course setup.

Gaussian distribution

Overlaid output-voltage traces from the Gaussian Monte Carlo exercise.
Simulated output-voltage traces — Gaussian distribution. View full-size image.

Uniform distribution

Overlaid output-voltage traces from the uniform Monte Carlo exercise.
Simulated output-voltage traces — uniform distribution. View full-size image.

Altium’s Worst Case distribution

Overlaid output-voltage traces from the Altium Worst Case Monte Carlo exercise.
Simulated output-voltage traces — Altium’s Worst Case distribution. View full-size image.

Scope

This is a reproduced training exercise. The screenshots document simulation output; they do not establish measured hardware performance, manufacturing yield, or guaranteed worst-case limits.

The uploaded images do not include the component-tolerance settings or the complete simulation configuration. Altium’s Worst Case distribution randomly selects tolerance endpoints; these plots alone do not demonstrate exhaustive coverage of all combinations.

Altium documentation: Monte Carlo analysis