Circuit design tools raises bar with enhanced design flexibility and robust features

Mouser has released the MultiSIM BLUE Premium, the newest release of the NI Multisim circuit design tool. The Premium takes the BLUE design tool’s ability to scheme, simulate, PCB design, BOM export and purchase, and boosts it to a new level of refreshingly unlimited flexibility and functionality. Powered by National Instruments (NI), it offers unlimited components within the schematic and integrated design capabilities. The new advanced tool provides engineers with a simulation environment using their vast selection of products and a larger selection of NI components, including the newest in analog and mixed-signal ICs, passive components, discrete semiconductors, power management ICs, connectors, and electromechanical components. Featuring an industry-standard Berkley SPICE simulation environment of electronic circuits, the tool provides engineers with the freedom to design and simulate circuits before laying them out in physical prototypes. Engineers can now visualise and evaluate linear performance, making this critical step of circuit design easier, faster and far more productive. “Based on the overwhelming success and demand for a more robust version of MultiSIM BLUE, it made perfect sense for Mouser to collaborate again with NI to produce the new MultiSIM BLUE Premium,” said Kevin Hess, Mouser’s senior vice president of marketing. “The design process is all about getting your ideas to market before anyone else. With MultiSIM BLUE Premium, we’ve raised the design bar by creating an even easier-to-use, unlimited, and a more time-efficient integrated platform for circuit simulation and design from PCB to BOM that is sure to create a buzz in our engineering community.” To help better organise and modularise schematics, hierarchical design capabilities have been added so engineers can incorporate classification blocks in place of a circuit and then repeat it in other parts of the design to save time. The tool also includes forward and backward annotation capabilities, allowing engineers to transfer changes from a schematic to a PCB layout environment or from layout to schematic.