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The document discusses the importance of circuit simulation in electronics, highlighting the need for extensive testing of modern circuits composed of millions of transistors. It introduces software tools like Multisim for simulating and analyzing electronic circuits, detailing key features and steps for circuit design and analysis. The document also provides an example of a resistive circuit and outlines the process for performing basic DC analysis using Multisim.

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Multism Software

The document discusses the importance of circuit simulation in electronics, highlighting the need for extensive testing of modern circuits composed of millions of transistors. It introduces software tools like Multisim for simulating and analyzing electronic circuits, detailing key features and steps for circuit design and analysis. The document also provides an example of a resistive circuit and outlines the process for performing basic DC analysis using Multisim.

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Introduction
 What is circuit simulation
 Electronics have an important place in daily life. So important, in
fact, that the modern world cannot be conceived of without
electronics.

 From reading and writing e-mails, using our cell phone to call and
sent text messages, writing a letter in a word processor, managing
data in a spreadsheet, controlling traffic in a busy downtown,
tracking objects in a manufacturing plant, watching the ball game
on a TV set, buying and selling stocks, etc., electronic circuits are
used to perform these tasks.

 Nowadays, modern electronic circuits are composed by millions of


transistors. For example, an Intel microprocessor needs more than
500 million transistors to be able to handle data at a speed greater
than 2.5 GHz and an iPhone with an A6 processor can have almost
the same number of transistors.
 To test these devices before the actual manufacturing needs
extensive simulation of the circuit to ensure proper performance
once the chip is in the computer or phone.
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 Circuit Analysis using Software (like Multisim

Configuration)

 Using software tools like Multisim or others (e.g.,

LTspice, PSpice), you can simulate complex circuits and

simulate their behavior before implementing them physically.

 Key features of circuit analysis software:

 Simulation of AC and DC circuits: Analyze voltage, current, and

 impedance in both time and frequency domains etc.


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 Multisim Configuration:

Multisim is a popular circuit simulation tool that provides a

graphical

user interface (GUI) for designing and analyzing electronic circuits.

 Key steps for using Multisim:

Circuit Design: Place components (resistors, capacitors, inductors,

transformers, etc.) on a schematic and Simulate the results

 Multisim can show voltage, current, and power across

components.
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 Examples

 Design in figure 2.1: Resistive circuit with an independent DC

voltage source using Multisim

 Resistive Circuits

The circuits composed with resistors and sources are the simplest circuits in electrical

and electronics engineering. Although their applications are very limited, they will serve

us to show the general input format for Multisim.

The first step is to follow installation instructions. Once we are finished with the

installation, we start Multisim from the Start menu and proceed with the next section
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 2.1 CIRCUIT EDITING

 The first circuit we analyze in Multisim is shown in Fig. 2.1. It is a resistive

circuit with an independent DC voltage source

Figure 2.1: Resistive circuit with an independent DC voltage


source.
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 This circuit has three resistors and an independent voltage


source. When we open Multisim, it shows a blank
schematic page where we can draw our schematic circuit,
several windows, and some toolbars, as shown in Fig. 2.2.
Some of the icons in the toolbars are conventional ones
such as Open file, Copy, Save, etc.
 The windows shown are the larger window to draw the
circuit called the Design Toolbox window, and the
Results/Nets/Components window. One of the toolbars is
the Components toolbar and it contains links to some of
the different components available to draw our circuits.
Table 2.1 gives a short description of the icons available in
this toolbar.
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The next step is to change the values of resistor R1. We click on


the 1K ohm values and the window. In the Value tab we change
1 to 2 (make sure that k ohm is shown in the pull down
menu next to the value field) and click OK. Resistor R1 is now
2Kohm In the same way we change the value of the source V1 to
10 V.

 Multisim 11 (the latest version as of this writing)


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2.1.1 BASIC DC ANALYSIS

We are now ready to simulate our circuit. The basic analysis


performed by Multisim is the DC Operating Point Analysis. This
type of analysis is performed even when a different type of
analysis is chosen (such as AC or transient).This type of analysis
calculates the node voltages and the currents through the voltage
sources. We perform this analysis by selecting from the main
menu Simulate →Analyses →DC Operating Point as shown in
Fig. 2.10. This action takes us to the window shown in Fig. 2.11
where we choose the variables to display. We select I(v1) and
V(2) as our variables.
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