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Electronics Workbench updates Multisim, DesignSuite.


TORONTO Toronto (tərŏn`tō), city (1998 est pop. 2,400,000), provincial capital, S Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. Toronto is the largest city in Canada and since the 1970s has been one of the fastest-changing cities in North America, experiencing  -- Electronics Workbench Electronics Workbench is an electronic circuit simulator, and was also a company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that first produced the software.

The company was originally founded as Interactive Image Technologies
 has launched Multisim 9, along with Ultiboard 9 and Ultiroute 9. These tools form the Series 9 DesignSuite, an engineering solution designed to bridge the gap between design and test.

Multisim 9 integrates with parent company National Instruments' Lab-VIEW 8 graphical development environment and SignalExpress interactive measurement software. Engineers can reportedly access simulation capabilities by using real-world data acquired by LabVIEW as the source to drives virtual circuits during testing. Engineers can also import their Multisim 9 simulation results into LabVIEW or SignalExpress in their native file formats instead of converting files, potentially' reducing errors and inefficiencies.

The Series 9 DesignSuite reportedly enables engineers to use mathematical expressions A group of characters or symbols representing a quantity or an operation. See arithmetic expression.  within analyses while simulating. Circuit wizards automatically generate circuitry, to match user-defined parameters for op amps and MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) The most popular and widely used type of field effect transistor (see FET). MOSFETs are either NMOS (n-channel) or PMOS (p-channel) transistors, which are fabricated as individually packaged  amplifiers. The new Ultiroute 9 autorouter allows users to prioritize pri·or·i·tize  
v. pri·or·i·tized, pri·or·i·tiz·ing, pri·or·i·tiz·es Usage Problem

v.tr.
To arrange or deal with in order of importance.

v.intr.
 the routing order by net.
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Title Annotation:MARRYING DESIGN & TEST
Author:Shaughnessy, Andy
Publication:Printed Circuit Design & Manufacture
Date:Dec 1, 2005
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