LTspice circuits #1: What is this 1563 circuit?

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nornandxor

Joined Dec 11, 2017
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Hi,
I need to learn more about building circuits and analyzing them, and since I started learning LTspice recently, I decided to pick a few circuits every week about LTspice from different online available resources and try to understand them/analyze them to help myself learn about circuitry.
So, I've found a lot of circuits online and downloaded a zipped file that has a couple hundreds of .asc circuits. So, I picked the first one in the folder and was called 1563 and when run/simulated this circuit that's what I got:
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So:
What is this circuit called? I looked for 1563 ic and found something about dc to dc convertor? Is that what it is, a dc-to-dc converter?
where to find this U1 component in the LTspice?
What is TowTom2?
What does this plot tell me?
circuit is attached

Thanks
 

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