Course Overview
The National Instruments Circuit Design Suite (Multisim and Ultiboard) equips the professional PCB designer with world-class tools for schematic capture, interactive simulation, board layout, and integrated test. This course teaches the fundamentals of the Multisim integrated capture and simulation design environment. Students learn how to build a schematic and evaluate circuit performance through interactive simulation and advanced analyses while creating custom capture and simulation parts. Educators also benefit from additional customizable content specifically for electronics education. At the end of the NI Multisim Basics course, students can design and simulate a circuit that is ready for board layout and routing. The hands-on format of this course is the quickest way to become productive with Multisim.
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After attending this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the Multisim user interface
- Use Multisim to capture circuit schematics
- Use interactive simulation to check your design
- Use virtual instruments and analyses
- Apply modular design with subcircuits, hierarchical blocks or multi-page designs
- Create custom title blocks
- Properly document your circuit designs
- Work with design variants
- Create custom components
- Co-simulate MCU projects along with SPICE
- Transfer your design to PCB Layout software
NI Multisim Basics: Schematic Capture and Simulation Course Outline
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| Schematic Capture | This lesson introduces the Multisim graphical user interface (GUI) and the Schematic Capture process to start your circuit design. |
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| Simulation and Virtual Instruments | This lesson explains the simulation capabilities of Multisim as well as the concept-check features. |
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| Analyses | This lesson teaches how you can perform advanced analyses to verify your circuit design. |
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| Results and Post Processing | This lesson introduces the Post-processor and ways to use results from analyses to further calculate and examine data. |
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| Advanced Schematic Capture | This lesson introduces the features that help you create professional-looking schematics and correctly-documented circuit design. |
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| Communication and Transfer | This lesson teaches best practices for creating meaningful reports and methods for transferring your design to PCB Layout software. |
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| Projects and Design Sharing | This lesson teaches you to professionally architect your design; you learn to use design blocks and buses, check for electrical failures and use the Project View. |
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| Design Variants | This lesson introduces Design Variants, teaching you how to properly configure and use variants, as well as use cases. |
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| Custom Components | This lesson teaches the process for customizing or editing components and creating new components. |
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| MCU Co-simulation | This lesson introduces the Multisim MCU Module. |
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| Educational Features* | This optional lesson introduces the Educational features of Multisim, mostly suitable for an academic classroom setup. |
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* Typically covered when the audience is Academically-oriented, optional when the audience is Professional. Topics discussed are available in the Educational edition of Multisim, however not all of them are available in the Base, Full or Power Pro edition.