Joint effort brings new circuit design educational tools
23 April 2003
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National Instruments and Electronics Workbench have announced a collaborative effort that they say enriches the laboratory experience in electronics technology education and electrical engineering education. The companies have developed the Multisim VI Library, a series of integrated sample labs linked by a seamless interface between National Instruments' LabVIEW graphical development environment and Electronics Workbench Multisim circuit simulation software.
The Multisim VI Library will help educators and students to more easily design, simulate, measure and test electronic circuits in an integrated software and hardware environment. NI's LabVIEW is a graphical development environment used to quickly build data acquisition, instrumentation and control systems. Users build a graphical program called a virtual instrument (VI) instead of writing text-based programs. The Multisim product is a leading educational market circuit simulation software offering unique pedagogical functions, intuitive schematic capture, SPICE/VHDL/Verilog/RF simulation, analysis, and a wide range of related educational resources.
The new interface gives educators and students the unique ability to easily exchange data between Multisim and LabVIEW using the Multisim VI Library. They can compare the data from a simulated circuit to real data from a prototype board and analyse the results within one experiment. The Library is based on a core VI that can easily be adapted by instructors to their own experiments.
The Multisim LabVIEW Library can be downloaded from NI's website at http://ni.com/info (enter exju54) or EWB's website at www.electronicsworkbench.com/html/eduresd4.html.
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