Free Spice Simulation Software for Linear Circuits Available From Analog Devices and National Instruments

Today’s product development teams are strained from the dual challenge posed by narrowing market windows and highly integrated, labor-intensive system designs. Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, today announced the availability of a free, downloadable circuit design environment that simplifies and speeds product design by allowing developers to capture schematics and simulate circuits for evaluation of ADI’s world-leading operational amplifiers (op amps) and other linear circuits. Developed by National Instruments (NASDAQ: NATI), a leading supplier of innovative solutions for test, control and design, NI Multisim™ Analog Devices® Edition is a new version of the NI Multisim SPICE simulation software created for component evaluation and circuit design. The new tool, loaded with over 800 ADI op amps and other linear circuits, helps shrink product development time by allowing designers to quickly and easily select, evaluate, prototype and test ADI’s linear circuits in a low-risk "virtual evaluation board” environment. "ADI’s goal is to deliver customers a series of scalable options that bring some relief to today’s high-pressure design cycles,” said Dave Kress, director of applications engineering at Analog Devices. "By downloading SPICE models available through NI Multisim, designers are able to build their own circuits with up to 25 elements while choosing from among more than 800 ADI op amps, switches and voltage references. At the same time, we’ve preserved the look and feel of ADI’s amplifier parametric evaluation tool user interface, so our customers don’t have to worry about the ramp-up time and lost productivity that can come from migrating to a new and unfamiliar design environment.” NI Multisim Analog Devices Edition helps engineers easily design circuits and understand fundamental design characteristics with advanced circuit analyses in an intuitive virtual prototyping environment. With this tool, engineers can easily swap ADI components to pinpoint the best design option, avoiding costly and time-consuming prototype rework. NI Multisim Analog Devices Edition is available through the Analog Devices’ Design Center web site http://www.analog.com/DesignCenter, which includes the ADIsimOpAmp™ free online amplifier parametric evaluation tool that allows designers to select, configure and troubleshoot a circuit using a graphical development environment powered by National Instruments LabVIEW™ graphical programming language and NI Multisim SPICE simulation software. "National Instruments is pleased to join with Analog Devices in providing customers with a tool that will have a positive impact on their business needs,” said John Graff, vice president of marketing at National Instruments. "By combining the intuitive circuit simulation of NI software with the circuit expertise of ADI, we have given engineers a powerful tool for shortening product development lifecycles.” Availability and Pricing NI Multisim Analog Devices Edition software is available for free download from the Analog Devices web site http://www.analog.com/multisim. Engineers can use NI Multisim Analog Devices Edition to quickly prototype a design and perform part selection, and they can then upgrade to a complete version of NI Multisim to complete their design and transfer to NI Ultiboard™ for board layout and production. Complete information about the NI Circuit Design Suite and a free evaluation version of the NI Multisim Professional Edition for complete PCB design can be downloaded at http://www.ni.com/multisim. Engineers can upgrade from NI Multisim Analog Devices Edition to a complete version of NI Multisim starting at $1,499.00. About Analog Devices Innovation, performance, and excellence are the cultural pillars on which Analog Devices has built one of the longest standing, highest growth companies within the technology sector. Acknowledged industry-wide as the world leader in data conversion and signal conditioning technology, Analog Devices serves over 60,000 customers, representing virtually all types of electronic equipment. Celebrating over 40 years as a leading global manufacturer of high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing applications, Analog Devices is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, with design and manufacturing facilities throughout the world. Analog Devices' common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "ADI” and is included in the S&P 500 Index. http://www.analog.com National Instruments, NI, Multisim, LabVIEW and Ultiboard are trademarks of National Instruments.