New MultiCap 8 Schematic Capture
Toronto, Ontario, CA, March 16, 2005 – Electronics Workbench, a National Instruments company (Nasdaq: NATI), announces Multicap 8 with enhanced schematic capture functionality. With its built-in intelligence, Multicap reduces schematic creation time and adds support for even more complex designs. Innovations such as modeless operation and auto-connect passives save time and increase flexibility, while graphical feedback ensures that all connections are made as intended. Carefully conceived wiring functionality further reduces design time – for example, simply touching a component’s pin(s) to a wire or other component automatically creates a connection.
Tool-tip style circuit annotations provide an easy and a logical method of capturing and sharing design notes. Variant Support facilitates the variable manufacturing of a single design. Other Multicap 8 enhancements include robust Bus Support for advanced designs and powerful support for Hierarchical Designs. Multicap 8’s Bus Vector Connect and Bus Merge functions provide an industry-unique capability which save significant time. Additional bus enhancements include a new off-page, hierarchical and sub-circuit bus connectors capability with an improved ERC.
Component browser enhancements make finding parts even faster. Circuits can be annotated with visual error makers and an informative “Zoom to Error” feature helps to capture errors before they become design problems. Multicap 8’s internal spreadsheet is now completely compatible with MS Excel and components in circuit can be automatically saved to the parts database. Multicap 8 is available from $995, and can be purchased stand-alone from Multisim 8.
Receive a free 45-day trial of Multicap 8 by downloading Multisim 8 at: http://www.electronicsworkbench.com, or by simply registering on-line to receive a copy on CD http://www.electronicsworkbench.com, or call 800.263.5552 for further information. You can download a high resolution image of Multicap 8 at this URL: http://www.electronicsworkbench.com/media/.
About Electronics Workbench
Electronics Workbench develops and markets desktop electronic design automation (EDA) software used by educators and design engineers around the world. The company’s circuit board design system incorporates schematic capture; patented co-simulation of analog and digital circuits using SPICE and VHDL; RF design tools; constraint-driven PCB layout and autorouting; and CAM verification tools.
Since 1984, the company has also produced economical products that are highly effective in educational environments and easily integrated into engineering curriculum.
Headquartered in Toronto, Electronics Workbench has approximately 50 employees with sales and support offices in North America and Europe and distribution partners in more than 32 countries around the world. Readers can reach the company at (416) 977-5550, or at www.electronicsworkbench.com.
About National Instruments
National Instruments (www.ni.com) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation – a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging the PC and its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs through easy-to-integrate software, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular hardware, such as PXI modules for data acquisition, instrument control and machine vision. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,400 employees and direct operations in 38 countries. In 2004, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries. For the past six years, FORTUNE magazine named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
