Free Spice Simulation Software For Linear Circuits Available From Analog Devices And National Instruments

“ADI’s goal is to deliver customers a series of scalable options that bring some relief to today’s high-pressure design cycles,” said Dave Kress, director of applications engineering at Analog Devices. “By downloading SPICE models available through NI Multisim, designers are able to build their own circuits with up to 25 elements while choosing from among more than 800 ADI op amps, switches and voltage references. At the same time, we’ve preserved the look and feel of ADI’s amplifier parametric evaluation tool user interface, so our customers don’t have to worry about the ramp-up time and lost productivity that can come from migrating to a new and unfamiliar design environment.”

NI Multisim Analog Devices Edition helps engineers easily design circuits and understand fundamental design characteristics with advanced circuit analyses in an intuitive virtual prototyping environment. With this tool, engineers can easily swap ADI components to pinpoint the best design option, avoiding costly and time-consuming prototype rework. NI Multisim Analog Devices Edition is available through the Analog Devices’ Design Center web site http://www.analog.com/DesignCenter, which includes the ADIsimOpAmp™ free online amplifier parametric evaluation tool that allows designers to select, configure and troubleshoot a circuit using a graphical development environment powered by National Instruments LabVIEW™ graphical programming language and NI Multisim SPICE simulation software.

“National Instruments is pleased to join with Analog Devices in providing customers with a tool that will have a positive impact on their business needs,” said John Graff, vice president of marketing at National Instruments. “By combining the intuitive circuit simulation of NI software with the circuit expertise of ADI, we have given engineers a powerful tool for shortening product development lifecycles.”