Description:
Electronics Workbench leading the EDA industry in innovation.

Electronics Workbench produces the world's most widely used circuit design software with more than 160,000 products sold around the globe. The company's design tools are used for schematic capture, simulation, layout and routing of printed circuit boards (PCBs). The company has over 15 years of EDA experience and is one of the original pioneers of PC-based electronics design tools. Electronics Workbench has offices in New York, Toronto, Amsterdam, Stuttgart, London and Paris. A network of highly competent, technical distributors offer sales and support services in 35 additional countries throughout the world. The company is a privately held firm and the head office is located in Toronto, Canada.

THE ELECTRONICS WORKBENCH ADVANTAGE
Electronics Workbench is devoted to engineering high quality, robust tools that offer the circuit designer truly unique capabilities, providing advantages simply not available anywhere else. Advantages that dramatically improve your circuit design process.

WE OFFER:

Dedication to the professional circuit/PCB engineer and designer
Commitment to innovation in an industry within which other vendors have dramatically slowed development
Truly unique functionality which bypasses competitor's stagnant products
Continued growth in R&D investments
Industry renowned ease-of-use
Flexible licensing options and multiple price points
Electronics Workbench users benefit from powerful features, ease-of-use and an integrated design flow found in few Windows-based design systems. The company's printed circuit board design system incorporates schematic capture; co-simulation of analog and digital circuits using SPICE, VHDL and Verilog; RF design tools; PCB layout and routing; and CAM verification tools. Multisim was voted a "Top 10 EDA Product of the Year" by Cahner's Electronic's industry yearbook, the only mainstream product to achieve this honor.

A SAMPLE LIST OF OUR CUSTOMERS AROUND THE WORLD

3M Ericsson
Motorola
AT & T Fairchild Semiconductor NASA
Advanced Micro Devices Ford National Semiconductor
Agilent Fujitsu Nortel Networks
Alcatel General Electric Northrop Grumman
Allen-Bradley General Motors
Philips
Allied Signal
Harris Semiconductor Procter & Gamble
AMP Hewlett Packard Raytheon
Analog Devices Hitachi Rohde & Schwarz
Atmel Honeywell Robert Bosch
Bang & Olufsen Hughes Rockwell Collins
BMW IBM Rolls-Royce
Boeing Intel Sandia National Labs
Bombardier
Johnson Controls Scientific Atlanta
Celestica Lockheed Martin Siemens
Cisco Systems Los Alamos National Labs Sony
Compaq Lucent Technologies
Texas Instrument
Dow Chemical Microchip Technologies Xerox
Eastman Kodak Mitel

POWERFUL, PRODUCTIVE & PROVEN EDA SOLUTIONS

We offer solutions for all major steps in the circuit design flow: schematic capture, simulation, PCB layout, autorouting and CAM preparation.

By using our complete suite of products for all your design needs, you will eliminate data integration issues and will have to learn only one user interface.
In addition, we provide rare flexibility intended to satisfy any design need.

Choose from two tiers of every product to match any budget (Professional and Power Pro). And choose the whole integrated Electronics Workbench Suite or any product individually. We don't force you to buy tools you don't need.

HIGHLY INTEGRATED DESIGN FLOW

MULTICAP 7 — SCHEMATIC CAPTURE
Multicap 7 is an exceptional capture program, suitable for pure schematic entry, driving simulation, or feeding PCB layout. A well-designed user interface reduces the time and steps needed for repetitive schematic entry tasks. Powerful wiring algorithms enable automatic wiring as well as part dragging without losing connections. Parts are easy to find and quick to place, making you more efficient. All devices are stored in an integrated database along with their simulation models and PCB footprints so that your schematics are automatically ready to simulate at the click of a single button,and are easily transferable to PCB layout. Learn more.

MULTISIM 7 — SIMULATION & CAPTURE
Multisim 7 is a powerful simulation tool which includes a complete, fully integrated version of Multicap 7 for design entry leading to simulation. Multisim is by far the world's most widely used SPICE simulator. Using patented technology, the program also co-simulates SPICE, VHDL, Verilog and RF devices so that you can analyze complete boards containing devices not practically modeled in SPICE. Verify circuits and locate errors before they propagate further down the design flow and become costly mistakes. Investigate circuits using the industry's only virtual instruments and "change-on-the-fly" interactive simulation. Every PCB design should now include simulation as a key step. Learn more.

ULTIBOARD 7 — PCB LAYOUT
Ultiboard 7 combines power with ease of use to quickly get error-free boards to production. The program uses one of the industry's only real-time systems so that all DRC, ratsnest, polygon, and force vector information is updated in real-time as you work, for instant feedback. Ultiboard's user interface is carefully designed so that the most critical repetitive tasks such as trace editing and component placement can be performed quickly with minimum steps and fewer mouse clicks. Ultiboard supports simple to advanced boards, high-speed designs, up to 64 layers, 1 nanometer resolution, microvias and today's most complex packages (such as BGAs). Manufacturing optimization features are also included to ensure efficient error-free production, with available CAM functionality. Learn more.

ULTIROUTE 7 — AUTOROUTING
Ultiroute 7 is the only autorouting program to employ "Progressive Routing" — breakthrough technology that combines grid and gridless (or shape-based) routing techniques into a single engine. Get better board layouts with higher completion, shorter trace lengths, and fewer vias through gridless routing, while most traces are still placed on the grid for easy editing. With Ultiroute, you will make more efficient use of limited board space and reduce production costs. And you have complete control over all configuration factors affecting routing strategy. Learn more.

COMMSIM 7 — COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM DESIGN
Commsim 7 is a powerful yet easy to use simulation tool for physical level network and communication systems design. It allows you to view signal waveforms at any point in your system, via a natural sequence of steps. Commsim features an intuitive user interface enabling drag and drop simplicity. The library contains over 200 blocks and includes models for the latest technologies like Wireless LAN. Use Commsim for fast and accurate analog, digital and mixed mode communications systems design.

COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS WITH UNLIMITED FLEXIBILITY
There are two compelling reasons to move up to an Electronics Workbench Suite. First, you will benefit from powerful and timesaving features that arise as the result of the tight forward and backward integration between the products in the Series 7 family. Second, you will receive a substantial discount over the purchase price of the individual software tools.

Other vendors offer only a limited selection of product bundles, forcing you to pay for products you don’t need. In contrast, we provide you with the freedom to configure the ideal solution for your design needs from our complete range of products, allowing you to invest in only those tools that deliver value to your organization.

SCHEMATIC CAPTURE

Multicap 7 is an exceptional capture program, suitable for pure schematic entry, driving simulation, or feeding PCB layout. A well-designed user interface reduces the time and steps needed for repetitive schematic entry tasks. Powerful wiring algorithms enable automatic wiring as well as part dragging without losing connections. Parts are easy to find and quick to place, making you more efficient. All devices are stored in an integrated database along with their simulation models and PCB footprints so that your schematics are automatically ready to simulate at the click of a single button, and are easily transferable to PCB layout.

SIMULATION & CAPTURE

Multisim is an integrated desktop design entry and simulation system, part of the Electronics Workbench design flow for mainstream professional design engineers. Multisim provides flexible design entry including schematic capture, a comprehensive component database and an advanced yet easy-to-use simulation system for SPICE, VHDL and Verilog and RF models.

Schematic capture with Electronics Workbench is fast and intuitive, with an intelligent user interface design and features that create a natural, productive work flow. Multisim 7 includes a completely integrated version of Multicap 7 - the industry's only all new capture program in a decade - for design entry leading to simulation. Learn more about Multicap 7.

The component database is one of the largest available. It includes simulation models and footprints for each part, so that schematics are ready for simulation or PCB layout immediately upon capture. Users can easily edit, import or create parts and generate simulation models for new components.

Simulation is integrated into the schematic capture environment: simply activate the design with a single click and view its behavior with a range of virtual instruments. A patented co-simulation engine manages multiple concurrent simulations and displays a unified result, letting users analyze the complete circuit with a combination of SPICE, VHDL, Verilog and C-code models for a more accurate view of the system's complete behavior.

PCB LAYOUT

Ultiboard has been carefully designed to maximize your productivity. By intelligently optimizing the most common, repetitive tasks such as part and trace placement, we have dramatically reduced the number of keystrokes and mouse movements required. And 3D visualization with Mechanical CAD makes sure that your board not only functions properly, but also fits appropriately into its housing/enclosures. Ultiboard handles today’s higher speed designs with ease using constraint driven layout. Innovative features such as Real-Time design rule checking, “Push & Shove” components & traces, and "Follow-me” trace editing ensure that you rapidly complete an error-free board.

AUTOROUTING

For all but the most basic PCBs, the density and complexity of today’s designs can make manual component and trace placement techniques impractical. For these designs, Electronics Workbench offers Ultiroute — a state-of-the-art autorouting and autoplacement tool.

Electronics Workbench software easily handles complex designs
including large multi-layer boards and high-pin-count components
such as BGAs. Ultiroute ensures high circuit performance and
lower production costs for these demanding projects by uniquely
combining the best of gridless (shape-based) and grid-based
routing.

In benchmark tests against other leading autorouters, Ultiroute consistently delivers noticeably superior board designs with fewer
vias and shorter copper lengths.

COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM DESIGN

Commsim 7 is used for modeling end-to-end communication systems at the signal or physical level. The latest generation of Commsim incorporates end-user feedback, improved simulation performance and easy-to-use design creation.

With its full complement of communication blocks and powerful, time domain simulation engine, Commsim provides fast and accurate solutions for analog, digital and mixed-mode communication systems. New features such as Wireless LAN and multi-rate support and new additions to the library like State Transition Blocks allow you to quickly and easily design systems that incorporate today's current technologies.

Use Commsim to rapidly develop, model and optimize modern communications systems:

achieve high bandwidth efficiencies
reduce power requirements
increase system reliability
reduce the overall design cycle
and much more!

HOW COMMSIM IS USED
Commsim is a powerful yet easy-to-use simulation tool that allows you to move seamlessly through model construction, simulation, optimization and validation. Commsim 7 allows you to simulate and view signal waveforms at any point of the communication system chain.

Commsim's intuitive block diagram interface uses the same drag-and-drop placement and wiring methods as Multisim, so you will spend less time learning how to use the software and more time getting your job done right.