What Is NI Multisim?
Multisim is an industry-standard, best-in-class SPICE simulation environment. It is the cornerstone of the NI circuits teaching solution to build expertise through practical application in designing, prototyping, and testing electrical circuits. The Multisim design approach helps you save prototype iterations and optimize printed circuit board (PCB) designs earlier in the process.
Benefits for Education
Developed for the educator who needs to teach all aspects of circuits and electronics, Multisim Education Edition provides the ability to seamlessly move students from theory to simulation to the lab. Regardless of the application area, the powerful environment offers the following benefits:
Benefits for Circuit Design
Multisim Professional Edition provides the SPICE simulation and prototyping tools for reliable circuit design. Multisim has been optimized for usability to ensure domain experts and researchers can quickly realize their PCBs through:
Benefits for Education
Visualize and Interact With Circuit Theory and Equations
With a heavy mathematical and theoretical curriculum, engaging students in circuits concepts can often be difficult. An interactive, graphical learning environment gives students the ability to visualize circuit theory, helping to reinforce the formulas and equations. With Multisim, quickly develop fundamental circuits that pair with lecture topics for use in class and homework assignments. More than 22 virtual instruments within Multisim help you to visualize the effect of tuning parameters, such as the affect on the output voltage of an operational amplifier when modifying the first resistor in real time.
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Focus on Course-Specific Concepts With SPICE Simulation
Understanding how a filter responds to a step input in transient analysis is only the first step when characterizing a filter circuit; determining the passband or -3dB point can provide valuable insight to the filter design. Multisim contains 20 different analyses, helping students to fully understand circuit behavior. With modeled components for analog, digital, mechatronics, and power electronics, Multisim is a best-in-class teaching tool for truly understanding circuit theory across multiple curricula.
Transition to Lab Easier With Seamless Integration to NI Hardware Teaching Platforms
Are you limiting the education experience of your students by stopping at simulation? Do your students often struggle with transitioning to lab exercises after simulation or theory? Multisim integrates seamlessly with NI myDAQ and NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS) hardware, giving students the ability to compare simulated prelab results to acquired data within the same environment. NI ELVISmx instruments eliminate the need to manually plot data and overlay onto the simulated results, so students can focus on understanding concepts and behaviors rather than manual plotting techniques.
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Facilitate Student Design Projects in the Same Environment
As students progress in their engineering education, they have to learn new tools to accomplish tasks. When it comes to design projects, students must often combine different tools to complete a common task. This can be challenging when the environment is new to the student. With Multisim and Ultiboard, students have a circuit design and prototyping environment within the same toolchain. The continuously expanding database and intuitive user interfaces help students design, simulate, and prototype faster and more efficiently.
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Benefits for Circuit Design
Improve Designs Earlier With Accurate Part Selection
Multisim is equipped with a database of as many as 22,000 components from leading semiconductor manufacturers such as Analog Devices, National Semiconductor, NXP, ON Semiconductor, and Texas Instruments. Choose from a comprehensive list of up-to-date amplifiers, diodes, transistors, switch mode power supplies, and other components to rapidly design and evaluate analog and digital circuits.
Enhance Performance With Intuitive Simulation and Analysis
Optimize the performance of designs earlier in the design flow and ensure circuits meet specifications with fewer prototype iterations, with intuitive Multisim simulation. To visualize performance, use 20 industry-standard SPICE analyses (such as AC, Fourier, and noise) and 22 intuitive measurement instruments. Even visualize domain-specific designs with an ever-expanding library of custom simulation analyses developed in LabVIEW.
Rapid Layout and Routing With Ultiboard
The Ultiboard layout environment is fully integrated with Multisim, so you can quickly translate a circuit to PCB prototype. Export industry-standard formats such as Gerber and DXF by using an environment optimized for quick prototyping.
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Simplified Design of NI Hardware Accessories
When developing systems that include NI data acquisition, NI Single-Board RIO, or NI CompactRIO you often need to develop signal conditioning, test fixtures, and other circuitry that is not available directly off the shelf. Using Multisim and a database of 90+ predefined, pin-accurate connector symbols, you can save hours when developing accessories for these NI hardware platforms.
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Integrated Prototype Validation With LabVIEW
A completed circuit design must be validated to ensure that the physical prototype meets specifications. You can integrate Multisim measurements into NI test platforms using LabVIEW to easily visualize correlation of real and simulated results and benchmark performance.
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