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Circuit simulation helps engineers uncover a variety of flaws early in the design process. Through both simple and advanced analyses, key behaviours and operations can be thoroughly tested and errors can be remedied before additional unnecessary prototypes cause costly and time-consuming rework.
Electronics Workbench Multisim is a
powerful and intuitive simulation tool that enables designers to reduce iterations and save valuable time and money. To drive efficiency
for electronics design, Multisim includes a wide variety of
sophisticated simulation tools: a robust
industry-standard SPICE engine, dozens of advanced analyses,
customizable simulation options, custom component creation, and
integration with industry standard test and measurement tools. In this article, you have the opportunity to learn about each of these areas
and how they can be applied to your design process.
To read the article in full please click here.
National Instruments Announces the 20th Anniversary Edition of LabVIEW
National Instruments, a global leader in virtual instrumentation, announced the launch of NI LabVIEW 8.20, the 20th anniversary edition of the LabVIEW graphical system design platform for test, control and embedded system development at NI Week 2006. The LabVIEW anniversary edition introduces powerful new features including general compatibility with The MathWorks, Inc. MATLABŪ software, new FPGA-based custom hardware design wizards for building industrial controllers and updates to the NI Modulation Toolkit.
To learn more please visit ni.com/labview
NI Founders Outline the Future of LabVIEW at NIWeek
2006
Dr. James Truchard, president, CEO and co-founder of National
Instruments, kicked off the 12th annual NI Week, the world’s leading virtual
instrumentation conference and exhibition, by unveiling NI
LabVIEW 8.20, the 20th anniversary edition of the graphical development
platform, and offering a glimpse of graphical system design in the next 30
years.
View full press release.
Introduction to Ultiboard PCB Design: Integrating Multisim Schematic and Ultiboard Layout - 1-hour Web Seminar
Join us for a FREE Web Event featuring the latest product and technology information. The demands on today’s design engineers are ever-increasing. Deadlines are tighter, while quality must remain unsurpassed. Join us for a special 1-hour online event, and learn how you can easily take an enhanced schematic capture in Multisim to the PCB layout stages with Ultiboard.
Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. EST
Learn more and register online.
Multisim & Ultiboard Training Classes Available
Looking for the fastest way to become productive with Multisim or Ultiboard? Sign up for a professional training course that will help you capture, simulate, and lay out your designs. These hands-on courses let you immediately apply and practice what you learn. Available classes are one day each in duration.
Learn more.
Development
Resources
Importing Data from LabVIEW Measurement (.LVM) Files into Multisim
Sometimes the best way to test a circuit design is with real-world input
data, particularly when the inputs to a circuit are difficult or impossible
to model and simulate. For example, when designing a filter on the output of
a noisy power supply, it is quite difficult to write a simulation model for
the noise on the supply. It is far easier to use LabVIEW data acqusition
tools to capture the noise on the output of the supply and use that data as
an input to the simulation.
Using real-world data as an input to simulation gives designers better
insight into the operation of their circuits under life-like circumstances.
Multisim 9 now includes the ability to natively use captured LabVIEW data as
an input to simulations.
Click here to learn how to incorporate LabVIEW measurement data into your simulations.
Exporting Multisim Simulation Data to LabVIEW
In the modern design cycle, engineers often use simulations to predict
circuit behaviour. These simulations form a benchmark to which prototype and
production printed circuit boards (PCBs) are measured.
Multisim 9 provides a simple and effective method for taking
these simulation results into the verification and validation phases of a
design. With the release of Multisim 9, simulation data can now be saved
natively into the standard LabVIEW measurement file format (.LVM) for easy
integration with test and measurement tools. This article will focus on
saving results to LabVIEW measurement files; however Multisim also provides
the ability to save data in the .TDM and .txt formats.
You can save simulations to LabVIEW measurement files from the Multisim
oscilloscope virtual instruments and from the Grapher.
Click here to view the full article.
New Features in LabVIEW 8.20
Since the advent of LabVIEW in 1986, engineering and science educators have successfully integrated its easy-to-use, interactive interface and its powerful graphical system design capabilities into their curriculum for project-based learning and real-world, hands-on experiments.
With the release of National Instruments LabVIEW 8.20 - the 20th anniversary edition, the powerful development environment builds upon its rich history of intuitive graphical programming and introduces several features for graphical system design in the areas of measurements, communications, controls, signal processing, and embedded applications.
To help you navigate through the latest enhancements in LabVIEW 8.20, we will discuss the five most requested features from the academic community available in this version.
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Textual Math - Develop algorithms using math-oriented textual programming and widely-used m-file script syntax quickly with LabVIEW MathScript
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Control Design and Simulation - Implement simulation loops and control design models easily, with direct real-time I/O
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RF and Communications - Design communication systems more intuitive and faster than ever before, using hundreds of new modulation schemes and advanced filters
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C Code Generation - Program any 32-bit microprocessor graphically and reuse existing C code with ease
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Advanced Graphics - See new dimensions in your mechanical and control systems with 3-D visualization based on OpenGL
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Additional LabVIEW 8.20 Resources
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