Multisim  is a professional schematic capture and circuit simulation package that has focused on providing powerful design features that integrate seamlessly into the application design flow. This intuitive environment helps any engineer to easily, successfully and quickly complete their designs. In projects of any complexity, Multisim’s advanced capture provides benefits by offering intuitive tools at all levels of schematic capture: from the fundamentals of placement and wiring, to the advanced features of project management and communication.  
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Company and Product News
NI Adds Support for New Tektronix Oscilloscopes

National Instruments announced support for the newly released Tektronix TDS1000B and TDS2000B Series of digital storage oscilloscopes in NI SignalExpress Tektronix Edition, an interactive PC-based measurement software design and test engineers use to quickly acquire, analyze and document measurements on the benchtop without programming.
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NI, Agilent Collaborate on Instrument Drivers
National Instruments and Agilent Technologies Inc. announced a cooperative effort to create National Instruments LabVIEW Plug-and-Play instrument drivers for Agilent LXI, USB and GPIB instruments.
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Events

NI Technical Symposium 2006
The symposium is an industry event sponsored by National Instruments that will showcase and give you a chance to work first hand the latest technologies in design, test, and measurement. An engineer from Electronics Workbench will be present to give software demonstrations and to speak with you regarding your application needs. In addition to meeting with representatives from Electronics Workbench,you will also be able to take part in a full day's worth of technical seminars, hands-on sessions, and networking with other industry professionals from your local area.
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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.
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Development Resources

How to Forward Annotate from Multisim to Ultiboard
The integration of Multisim with Ultiboard ensures a seamless transfer of information between schematic and PCB layout. Once a Multisim netlist has been transferred to a corresponding Ultiboard PCB for layout, it is important that any changes made to either the schematic or layout be reflected across the entire design. Forward annotation is the process of sending schematic changes to a corresponding PCB layout. Multisim automates the process of forward annotation.
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How to Back Annotate from Ultiboard to Multisim
When an electronic circuit has been fully drawn or captured, it is transferred to a PCB layout program such as Ultiboard. Often during the PCB layout process, additional components and/or nets are added such as mounting holes, or test points. Back annotation is the process of sending PCB layout changes to its corresponding schematic. Ultiboard automates the process of back annotation with a few clicks of the mouse.
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Academic Resources

Tutorial - What's New in Multisim 9?
Watch this guided online tutorial to learn more about the new technologies in Multisim version 9. See first hand through product demonstrations the new capture and simulation abilities in Multisim that will help you to improve your circuit design productivity. You'll also see how Multisim version 9 has been enhanced with new abilities that can help you to reduce design errors through integration with test and measurement tools like National Instruments LabVIEW and SignalExpress.
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