New Interactive Multisim Tutorials on ni.com!
Electronics Workbench has released two new interactive tutorials to assist you in determining whether Multisim 9 is the right capture & simulation platform for your design projects. View the tutorials to learn more about the latest advancements in Multisim 9 and to get a better picture of what the Multisim platform offers you as a designer. When you click on the links, you will be prompted to sign in to ni.com to view the tutorials... just complete the short forms and you'll be able to view the tutorials immediately!

Circuit Board Design and Simulation Software
Learn how powerful and easy-to-use circuit simulation tools can vastly enhance productivity in the design flow.

Who should watch: Design professionals who have never used
Multisim or have not used the tool in many years.
View tutorial now.

What's New in Electronics Workbench Multisim 9?
Learn about the new features and abilities of Multisim 9.

Who should watch: Design professionals considering an upgrade to Multisim 9 from previous versions of the software or those interested
in the latest technology in Multisim 9.
View tutorial now.

More technical information on Multisim and the Electronics Workbench suite of design software >>

Company and Product News
National FIRST Founder Dean Kamen to Deliver Keynote at National Instruments NIWeek 2006
Dean Kamen, president of DEKA Research & Development Corporation and founder of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), will deliver the closing keynote address to more than 2,000 attendees at NIWeek, the world's largest virtual instrumentation conference and exhibition, Aug, 8-10, in Austin, Texas.
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Events

NI Week
NI Week is taking place from 8th - 10th August 2006 in Austin Convention Centre, Austin, Texas. NI Week gives you the chance to join engineers, scientists, educators and exhibitors from all over the world in celebrating the 30th anniversary of National Instruments.

NI Week 2006 features three full days of interactive technical sessions, exhibitions, and workshops on the latest developments for automation, manufacturing, design, and test.
To view the full conference program click here.

To create your own personalised list of NIWeek 2006 sessions log onto ni.com. This list can be instantly added to your official NIWeek schedule by using the new Auto Scheduler.
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Development Resources
Creating Bus Vectors in Multisim
Today's engineers require sophisticated tools to match the increasing complexity of their designs. Specifically, as pin counts and trace counts increase, designers turn to buses to logically organize their connections. Multisim delivers powerful bus/vector connectivity. Not only can buses can be easily drawn with a few clicks of the mouse, but Multisim provides two intuitive methods for creating connections to buses. Additionally, buses can be linked across pages of complex designs or to the inputs and outputs of Hierarchical Blocks and Subcircuits.

View the full article to learn how to:

• Place a Bus in Multisim
• Manually Connect a Busline
• Automatically Create New Buslines
• Automatically Connect to Existing Buslines

View the article "Creating Bus Vectors in Multisim" on ni.com/devzone

Pausing Simulation with the Measurement Probe in Electronics Workbench Multisim
Multisim offers a number of advanced virtual instruments and analyses that help you gain a deeper and more complex understanding of the operation of your design. The measurement probe is such a tool, and it can be both a quick and functional interface to the characteristics of your circuit, as well as an advanced tool to the simulation process in Multisim. The advanced features of the probe allow you to use the instantaneous voltages and currents at a particular node to customise the simulation process by accessing and displaying information in the Description Edit Box, and, as this article will investigate, pause your simulation.

• The Measurement Probe
• Placing a Measurement Probe
• Setting a Simulation Pause

View the article "Pausing Simulation with the Measurement Probe" on ni.com/devzone

Electronics Workbench Discussion Forum Live on ni.com
You now have access to an excellent support and sharing tool on the NI Developer Zone: Electronics Workbench Discussion Forum. You can ask questions to Electronics Workbench engineers, share comments and questions with peers, and learn more about using your products. The forums are monitored by degreed Applications Engineers, so you can be assured that your question will be answered. Visit the forums today to learn more and contribute your expertise!
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Academic Resources

New Circuit Design Bundle Available for Circuits Education
Electronics Workbench and National Instruments are proud to introduce the updated Circuit Design Bundle for electronics education. With the latest circuit simulation and measurement technology, the Circuit Design Bundle offers everything you'll need for your electronics lab in a single package bundled at a low cost.

• Take advantage of integrated multi-instrument functionality
• Use 3D NI ELVIS in Multisim to facilitate visualisation of circuit before prototyping
• Design circuits in a leading software tool, Multisim
• Prototype and test circuits with NI ELVIS and LabVIEW
• NI ELVIS with plug-and-play USB for flexible setup

Learn more about the Circuits Bundle.