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Educators: Bring Circuits to Life in your Courses with Multisim 10
The NI Electronics Education Platform includes NI Multisim circuit simulation software, industry-standard NI LabVIEW measurement software, and the NI ELVIS prototyping workstation. This integrated hardware and software platform provides a hands-on method for students to gain in-depth knowledge of electronics design theory and practice. Based on professional PCB design tools, the Electronics Education Platform was designed with the needs of educators in mind, and aids student understanding through features such as virtual and rated components, 3D virtual breadboarding, single symbol digital components, virtual instruments, and more.  
Learn more about the Electronics Education Platform.

Multisim 10: Improving Electronics Designs with Simulation and Virtual Instrumentation
NI Electronics Workbench Group latest release of Version 10 now forms a platform of tools for electronics design, marking a significant advance in the vision of tightly integrated design and test. The platform, comprised of NI Multisim, NI Ultiboard, and NI measurement technology including NI LabVIEW and NI SignalExpress, introduces a large number of new professional tools for an easy-to-use and improved methodology to capture, simulate and test a design.

This combination of Multisim SPICE simulation with LabVIEW virtual instrumentation provides an easy method to compare simulated design data against real-world measurements to validate a designs performance within a single PC-based environment.
View the interactive tutorial.

NEW Licensing and Activation Technology in Version 10
National Instruments provides different licensing options to meet your needs from application development to system deployment. National Instruments offers the Software Development License for standard software users. Understanding this license will help you efficiently manage your software assets and get the most out of your investment.
View details on the NI Software Development License.

Activating Your NI Electronics Workbench Group Products
Version 10 now uses National Instruments Activation technology, which offers up to six different ways to easily activate your software. Version 9 and earlier products can still be activated with traditional release codes.
Learn how to activate your V10, V9, and earlier products.

NEW NI Academic Site License Circuits Option
NI Academic Site Licenses are designed to fit the needs of academic institutions worldwide. These multiuser licenses offer comprehensive software suites for university departments, colleges, and campuses to ensure you have the tools you need, when you need them, in the lab or classroom.

NI now offers the NI Academic Site License Circuits Option, a comprehensive, flexibly licensed bundle of software specifically designed for electronics education. With department, college, and campus editions, the Circuits Option is the most cost-efficient and streamlined way to equip your electronics teaching classrooms and laboratories. The Circuits option includes the full suite of NI educational design software, including Multisim Education, Multisim Education MCU Module, Ultiboard Education, and NI SignalExpress and NI LabVIEW.
View full details.

NI Multisim MCU Module: Now with C-Code Support
Extend the simulation power of Multisim 10 with the NI Multisim MCU Module for microcontroller co-simulation. Now, users benefit from an intuitive MCU Code Manager that helps beginners as well as experts quickly set-up and manage MCU projects in the NI Multisim environment. Newly added C-Code support allows educators and professional users to program their MCUs in a higher level language, making the new NI Multisim MCU Module applicable to not only to basic assembler and microcontroller courses but also for software and system design.
Read more: Microcontroller Co-simulation for SPICE-based circuits.

Events
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.

Free Technical Seminar: Circuit Design Using NI Multisim Simulation and NI LabVIEW Measurements
Learn how simulation and measurements can improve your circuit design flow by increasing productivity, reducing prototype iterations, and shortening your product’s time to market. Also, learn to successfully use SPICE modeling and advanced circuit analysis in combination with measurements in Multisim to vastly improve circuit design.

February 6, 2007 - Detroit, Michigan - Register Now.
February 8, 2007 - Columbus, Ohio - Register Now.

Development Resources
NI Multisim and NI Ultiboard Discussion Forum Live on ni.com
Our live discussion forum was launched in and is a huge success, with a wide usage among our customers. The live discussion forum allows you to ask questions to NI Electronics Workbench Group support engineers, share comments and questions with peers, and learn more about using our products. The forums are monitored by degreed engineers to ensure quality technical support.
Visit the Discussion Forum today.

NI Circuit Design Technical Library
Visit our online technical library to access valuable design articles, circuit templates, white papers and tutorials. The NI Circuit Design Technical Library provides a single destination for valuable circuit design and SPICE simulation content.
Visit the NI Circuit Design Technical Library.

Academic Resources
Microcontroller Unit Co-Simulation for SPICE-Based Circuits
The NI Multisim MCU Module adds microcontroller unit co-simulation capabilities to Multisim, allowing you to include a microcontroller, programmed in assembly or C code, within your SPICE modelled circuit in the familiar NI Multisim environment. For a complete system simulation the MCU module can be used with any of NI Multisim’s virtual instruments, including the microcontroller and all connected analog and digital SPICE components. The Multisim MCU Module supports Intel®/Atmel® 8051/8052 and Microchip PIC16F84a chips as well as a broad range of advanced peripherals like external RAM and ROM, keypads, graphical and alphanumeric LCDs and others. The MCU Module is an ideal choice for courses such as digital electronics, computer architecture, MCU programming, embedded control, senior design and more!
View the Online Tutorial: "Introduction to the Multisim MCU Module".

Using a Real GPIB-Instrument to Drive your SPICE Based Circuit
A key element in the process of integration of design and test is to improve simulation quality by applying real-world data to a SPICE based circuit. There are several ways an NI Multisim user can use real-world data to drive a circuit. Connecting to traditional benchtop instruments via GPIB is probably the option that feels most natural to the majority of hardware designers. NI Multisim allows building and implementing custom virtual instruments based on NI LabVIEW. This example of a GPIB Source for NI Multisim can be used with any GPIB devices in order to drive your circuit with real world data. GPIB (General Purpose Interface Bus) is an industry standard that connects traditional instruments (e.g. Oscilloscopes, Function Generators, DMMs, etc.) to your computer. Driving your simulation with real world data will give you a better understanding of your circuit’s behaviour and turn your schematic into a virtual prototype.
Download example code.

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