What is it?
Electronics
Workbench is a graphical-based circuit simulation program. You can
draw the schematic of a circuit to be analyzed, instrument the circuit with laboratory
instrumentation such as meters, oscilloscopes, and waveform generators and simulate
the electrical operation of the circuit. The program is very easy to use and
is a great tool for solving complex ciruits, checking your homework solutions,
and testing lab procedures.
The company has always been innovative in terms of the user interface. The latest version MultiSim 8 (which
we do not have) supports a variety of commercial test equipment and has a three-simension protoboard on
which you can actually construct your circuits just as you do in the Glennan 308 laboratory.
There is a MultiSim
8 student demo which you can download.
How to Use/Install
The department has purchased a 25-seat site license for Electronics Workbench.
At present this program is installed on the computers in the Glennan 308 lab
and
you can use it anytime there.
Glennan 308: Simply go to courseware/multisim7
in the Start menu. The program is actually called "Multisim
7" rather than "Electronics Workbench".
Over the network: Instructions for setting up MultiSim 7 on pc's: These instructions
have not been debugged.
- Right click on "My Computer" and select "Map Network Drive"
- Choose an unused drive letter (drive W: is used as an example)
- Make sure that the "Reconnect at Login" box is checked.
- In the "Folder" dialog type \\car\multisim7
- Click on the text "different user name"
- In the User Name field, type eecs\abc123 (where abc123 is your EECS username)
- In the password field, type your EECS NT password.
- Click "ok"
- Click the Finish button
- The folder on the server should be mapped successfully and it's contents should
pop up in an explorer window. If not, browse to the W drive on your system and
it should come up.
- From the multisim7 folder on the W drive (which will be the root of drive
W or whatever you chose for a drive letter), goto the "setup" folder
and run setup.exe
- The installer should start and you then need to let the program set up windows
components needed for the program.
- The program will want to restart your system, do so.
- Upon restarting, the installer should automatically run and finish the installation. If not, browse back to the W:\setup folder and run
setup.exe again.
- The installer will set up shortcuts and finish.
- Run the program from the shortcuts created.
NOTE: You may need admin rights to the local machine each time it is run.
Tutorials
Electronics Workbench is relatively easy to use. There are a number of
textbooks including ours which show how to use it. Also, there are a number
of on-line tutorials:
- University of Evansville tutorial.
Good one to start with.
- Dartmouth tutorial. This one deals with more sophisticated concepts than we will typically use in ENGR 210.