Talk:NI Multisim

criterion for notability
The only criterion for notability is that somebody wrote a book about it? Look at Using Multisim 9 : Troubleshooting DC/AC Circuits, by John Reeder, CENGAGE Delmar Learning; 4 edition (August 1, 2006)  Hithisishal (talk) 02:50, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

merge
I suggest merging Electronics Workbench into NI Multisim. I've been told that they are different names for the same software, and so therefore should be discussed in one article (with redirect from the other name), analagous to mountain lion and puma. --68.0.124.33 (talk) 22:28, 27 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I think not, this historic information of this software [Electronics Workbench] and old [Multisim, before 2005] will stay independant of The today "National Instrument" software who has changed since 2005. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.220.252.125 (talk) 09:29, 19 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Historic or not, products that are only rebranded versions of the same product are merged into a single article. I'll merge it as soon as I get some time. -- Tomjenkins52 (talk) 09:37, 26 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Merging is not possible, since Electronics Workbench is not an article about the simulator product, but rather a COMPANY. It is briefly mentioned within the article that it was a product. And the Multisim article will redirect to this, saying that it was previously branded this. -- Tomjenkins52 (talk) 01:58, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

I wrote the four editions of the "Using MultiSim: Troubleshooting DC/AC Circuits" books for AC/DC and an other one, "Using MultiSim: Digital Circuits", for digital applications. The MultiSim moniker started with Version 6 of the EWB software and the first edition of the DC/AC text was written for that version. There is also a version of the text for each version through Version 9. The digital text was written using Version 6. Up until Version 6, the software was known as Electronics Workbench and the last version of that software was Version 5.3. The change occurred because the EWB company changed its name to Interactive Image Technologies and, according to my sources within the company at that time, the technical aspects of the programming software did not allow further expansion of the capabilities of the software beyond 5.3. So, as a result, the change of programming software included a name change for the overall software package and also allowed the company to move into industrial/commercial/engineering applications rather than just the educational market. Version 6, initially, was not nearly as operational as Version 5.3 (which worked quite well in an electronics classroom) and had a lot of 'early' problems which were greatly cleaned up by the time of Version 6.11. Then came Versions 7, 8 and 9 which were great improvements with all circuit files being upgradeable to the latest version even including Version 5 to some degree. MultiSim just got better and better and is a fine product today. (John Reeder) —Preceding unsigned comment added by John Reeder (talk • contribs) 00:50, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Lack of compatibility between versions
I think it would be important to mention in the article the lack of compatibility between versions, for example: the files generated by version 8 trial can not be opened anymore and NI does not give solutions to them, as a major limitation of the software this should be mentioned.--Vmsa (talk) 18:42, 6 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Not sure whether this is notable enough to be mentioned in the article, but you're right – versions later than 6 (2001) can open files created by all previous versions, but save files only in its own format, with a suffix of ".msX", where X is the version number (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12...). This is intentional, of course. Besides, all versions but 7 save files in a compressed format. --Лъчезар ☭ 共产主义万岁 ★ 08:36, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Sources (for real, this time)
I'm not really interested in rewriting the article myself, but the topic is notable. Huon (talk) 20:36, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Review of NI Multisim by German computer magazine c't, re-published by Heise Online.
 * Textbook on how to use NI Multisim, published by an academic publisher.

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Citation needed for assertion about usage
"Multisim is widely used in academia and industry". In my experience, Multisim is used hardly at all in industry, but I'm just one person. Regardless, this assertion needs to be backed up with a source. Gwideman (talk) 00:40, 3 July 2024 (UTC)