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Connect and Control Benchtop Instrumentation via your PC
National Instruments is a leading provider of high-quality General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB) controller
hardware for instrument control. GPIB delivers a reliable and easily configurable interface to connect measurement instruments to the personal computer to
acquire and save real data. NI GPIB products offer three key benefits to help save you time and money throughout the life of your instrument control
system - from development through production and maintenance. You can rely on hardware and software that offers improved performance, high reliability,
and increased productivity.
National Instruments software such as the powerful NI LabVIEW graphical programming language, provide out-of-the box instrument connectivity to
integrate bench-top instruments into the design and test process through GPIB.
Both hardware and software have been specially designed so measurements can be taken quickly with little set-up time. With NI-GPIB, circuit designers
can easily acquire data from bench-top function generators, and integrate this test data into circuit simulation. This process, called virtual prototyping,
allows any engineer to use real data during simulation that contains the noise, phase-shift and other elements that cannot be introduced through SPICE simulation alone.
Read our GPIB technical white paper to learn more.
Test-Drive Multisim
Try the latest in circuit simulation and board lay out: Test-drive NI Multisim 10.0 and NI Ultiboard 10.0 today!
We have collected together some of the most requested multimedia and evaluation resources for our latest edition of capture
and simulation technology: Browse to the test-drive section today to:
- Download and evaluate Multisim 10.0 and Ultiboard 10.0
- Explore the latest professional features of NI Multisim with a web presentation of What's New in NI Multisim 10.0
- Learn about Improving Electronics Design with Simulation and Virtual Instrumentation
Test-Drive Multisim Today
Academic Resources
NI Multisim Educational Features
NI Multisim provides a wealth of education-specific functionality. These academic features provide educators
with a more powerful and intuitive environment that benefit students by helping them to gain a better understanding of concepts in electronics more quickly. Read this article
to learn more about the many unique and exciting capabilities that Multisim provides instructors and students such as:
- Interactive Simulation
- Virtual Instruments
Circuit Restrictions and Hidden Faults
- Plus many more!
Learn more about NI Multisim 10.0's educational features.
Free Electronics Education Courseware
As an electronics instructor, take advantage of existing
cirricula, courseware, tutorials, and examples. Visit our electronics education courseware portal and download the NI materials
on this page free to use in your courses and classrooms.
You can have your lab manual or courseware listed here. For more details, please contact evan.robinson@ni.com and reference developer zone page 5621.
To find out more and download the courseware visit our academic pages.
Events
NI Week 2007
Join engineers, scientists, educators, and exhibitors from all over the world at NI Week 2007. This year NIWeek will feature three full days of
interactive technical sessions, exhibitions, and workshops on the latest developments for automation, manufacturing,
design, and test.
Ni Week 2007 will take place from August 7-9, 2007 in the Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas.
To learn more and register
please visit ni.com/niweek
PCB West 2007
National Instruments Electronics Workbench Group were pleased to join the many exhibitors at the Santa Clara Convention center for the 27th
and 28th of March for the 16th annual PCB West Design Conference. The event was a great success as National Instruments showcased the
integration between NI Multisim schematic capture and NI LabVIEW test and measurement. This different take on the PCB design flow to enable
efficiency through the power of virtual test, continued to resonate through the professional community, as engineers descended upon Silicon
Valley for the two day exhibition.
Conference Highlights:
- In an exciting live demonstration, NI LabVIEW was used to
acquire a real ECG signal which was immediately utilized as a
simulation source in NI Multisim. This unconventional demonstration
showcased the power of the integration of virtual test with circuit
simulation to effectively bring real-world sources and stimuli into
the world of SPICE simulation.
- Congratulations to Robert Badal of San Jose who was the lucky
winner of the LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot kit. Powered by NI
LabVIEW, future and present engineers alike can easily and
intuitively program a LEGO ® robot! We hope you have fun Robert!
To learn more about the show please visit www.pcbwest.com
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
Passive Component Placement Improved in NI Multisim 10.0
NI Multisim 10.0 introduces a new intuitive interface for selecting and customizing
passive components. Previously, designers needed to use virtual components in order to specify arbitrary values for passive components.
Virtual components could not be transferred to PCB layout since they did not specify a footprint.
To learn more view the full article.
NI-EWB R&D Staff Tip of the Month
To make source code development for microcontrollers easier, the NI Multisim MCU Module includes an
interactive debugging environment that facilitates the debugging process. Using the debugging tools
you can follow and track the sequence of events in a program using breakpoints, debug stepping and a
view of the memory and registers populated during simulation. With these features you can interactively
check the C and assembly code created for the microcontroller.
View the complete article now.
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