Summary of Software for Electronics

Summary

● Electronic circuit simulation uses mathematical al- gorithms to duplicate real electronics circuits.

● Electronic circuit simulation allows the user to be- come part of the learning experience by engaging him or her in these tasks:

● Creating electronic circuits

● Studying the operation of the electronics circuit

● Evaluating the performance of the electronics circuit

● Electronic circuit simulation helps to improve cir- cuit performance under these conditions:

● When breadboarding is not possible

● When it is difficult to look at the internal signals

● When tooling is expensive for building a circuit

● An analog simulation uses the Berkeley SPICE modeling simulation, and digital uses Verilog or VHDL simulations.

● Multisim is an electronics schematic capture and simulation program by National Instrument.

● National Instrument’s Ultiboard takes the sche- matic diagram and makes a printed circuit board layout from it.

● Electronic engineers use Multisim for schematic capture, SPICE simulation, and to design elec- tronic circuits.

● Circuit Wizard combines schematic circuit design, circuit simulation, PCB design, and CAD/CAM fabrication of PCB.

● Circuit Wizard includes the following virtual instruments:

● Analog and digital multimeter

● Logic analyzer

● Oscilloscope

● Signal generator

● Wattmeter

● Productivity software includes the areas of word processing, presentation, desktop publishing, and spreadsheets.

● Word processing uses a word processor program for entering text, formatting, making revisions, and printing the final document.

● Presentation programs include a text editor, a process for entering and editing graphics and photos, and an arrangement for a slide show.

● A page layout program is used for desktop publishing and allows the combining of text and images on a page, manipulating the page elements

for creative layouts, and producing multipage documents easily.

● An illustration program uses vector graphics for resizing artwork.

A photo editor works with photos and scanned images.

● Web design is used to create web pages to be ap- plied to a website on a server, with the home page identified as the index.

● A computer spreadsheet is used for inputting, ma- nipulating, organizing, and storing numbers and other data.

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