Multisim Analog Devices Edition Comparison Chart
Overview
The Multisim Analog Devices Edition provides engineers with an easy-to-use environment to evaluate Analog Devices products.
National Instruments also provides other circuit design and prototyping tools that expand the functionality you have seen in the Multisim Analog Devices Edition.
Are you are looking to gain the following functionality?
- Build more complex designs with more than 25 components
- Evaluate components from other manufacturers such as National Semiconductor or Texas Instruments
- Increase the component database by more than 7x with 16000+ components, models, and landpatterns
- Create custom components and landpatterns
- Export your designs to layout packages such as NI Ultiboard or Mentor Graphics PADS
Table of Contents
Multisim Analog Devices Edition
The Multisim Analog Devices Edition was created by National Instruments and Analog Devices to provide users an easy-to-use environment to evaluate the product catalog of the world's leading analog manufacturers.
NI has created a complete suite of design tools that help you to use Multisim for your specific needs:
- Are you an educator? Do you teach circuits theory? Learn more about teaching specific features of Multisim Education Edition.
- Are you an engineer who prototypes? Do you design printed circuit boards (PCBs)? Are you an academic researcher? Compare the Multisim Analog Devices Edition to our complete design software below.
Comparison Chart
In the following chart, you can compare the functionality of the Multisim Analog Devices Edition with Multisim Full and Multisim Power Pro editions. See how, with our professional software, you can use the same easy-to-use environment that you have already used for Analog Devices evaluation for:
- Developing designs that require more than 25 components
- Evaluating components from National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, Linear Technology, and so on
- Simulating more components including Switch-Mode Power Supplies, Microcontrollers, and 10,000+ other devices
- Exporting complete designs to the NI Ultiboard and Mentor Graphics PADS layout environments
- Creating custom components, models, and landpatterns for your domain specific designs
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Feature
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Multisim Analog Devices Edition
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NI Multisim
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NI Multisim
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| Component Database Size | 2202 | 12532 | 16912 |
| Simulation Sources | X | X | X |
| Indictors | X | X | X |
| Capacitors, Resistors, and Inductors | X | X | X |
| Relay and Socket Components | - | X | X |
| Analog Devices Components | X | X | X |
| Texas Instruments Analog Components | - | X | X |
| National Semiconductor Analog Components | - | X | X |
| NPN, PNP, MOS, JFET | X | X | X |
| Thermal Transistors | - | X | X |
| CMOS Components | - | X | X |
| MCU Simulation | - | - | X |
| Advanced Peripherals | - | X | X |
| Zener Diodes | X | X | X |
| Schotzky Diodes | X | X | X |
| DIAC, TRIAC Diodes | - | X | X |
| Digital Symbols (DSP, FPGA, VHDL, and so on) | - | X | X |
| Switch-Mode Power Supplies | - | X | X |
| Buck Converter | - | - | X |
| Boost Converter | - | - | X |
| Mosfter Driver | - | - | X |
| RF | - | - | X |
| Ladder Diagrams | - | X | X |
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| Components per Schematic | 25 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Customizable GUI | X | X | X |
| Component Creation Wizard | - | X | X |
| German/Japanese Localization | - | X | X |
| Modeless Part Placement and Wiring | X | X | X |
| Hierarchical Design | - | X | X |
| Multisheet Design | - | X | X |
| Forward/Back Annotation | - | X | X |
| Export to Ultiboard Layout | - | X | X |
| Export to Mentor PADS Layout | - | X | X |
| Customizable BOM | X | - | X |
| Database Import/Export | - | X | X |
| Interactive Simulator | - | X | X |
| Fully Mixed-Mode A/D Simulation | X | X | X |
| Cadence PSpice Model Simulation* | X | X | X |
| Mouse-Click Support for Interactive Parts | X | X | X |
| Switch-Mode Power Supply Simulation Models | - | - | X |
| Virtual Instruments | 22 | 15 | 22 |
| Analyses | 19 | 15 | 19 |
| MCU Functionality | - | - | X |
| Multisim Automation API | - | - | X |
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