Circuit Analysis with Multisim

✍ Scribed by David Báez-López, Félix E. Guerrero-Castro

• Publisher: Morgan and Claypool Publishers
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 198
• Series: Synthesis Lectures on Digital Circuits and Systems
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is concerned with circuit simulation using National Instruments Multisim. It focuses on the use and comprehension of the working techniques for electrical and electronic circuit simulation. The first chapters are devoted to basic circuit analysis. It starts by describing in detail how to perform a DC analysis using only resistors and independent and controlled sources. Then, it introduces capacitors and inductors to make a transient analysis. In the case of transient analysis, it is possible to have an initial condition either in the capacitor voltage or in the inductor current, or both. Fourier analysis is discussed in the context of transient analysis. Next, we make a treatment of AC analysis to simulate the frequency response of a circuit. Then, we introduce diodes, transistors, and circuits composed by them and perform DC, transient, and AC analyses. The book ends with simulation of digital circuits. A practical approach is followed through the chapters, using step-by-step examples to introduce new Multisim circuit elements, tools, analyses, and virtual instruments for measurement. The examples are clearly commented and illustrated. The different tools available on Multisim are used when appropriate so readers learn which analyses are available to them. This is part of the learning outcomes that should result after each set of end-of-chapter exercises is worked out. Table of Contents: Introduction to Circuit Simulation / Resistive Circuits / Time Domain Analysis -- Transient Analysis / Frequency Domain Analysis -- AC Analysis / Semiconductor Devices / Digital Circuits

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments......Page 15
What is Multisim......Page 17
Selected Bibliography......Page 18
Circuit Editing......Page 19
Basic DC Analysis......Page 22
Basic Measurement Instruments......Page 28
The Multimeter......Page 33
The Oscilloscope......Page 35
The Probe......Page 37
Breadboard Circuit Capture......Page 38
Use of the Multisim Grapher......Page 42
Circuits with VCVS......Page 45
Circuits with ICIS......Page 46
Conclusions......Page 51
Capacitors and Inductors......Page 59
EXPONENTIAL Signal......Page 60
PULSE Signal......Page 61
Sine Wave AC Signal......Page 62
Thermal Noise Signal......Page 63
Time Domain Analysis – Transient Analysis......Page 65
Use of Cursors......Page 67
The Oscilloscope and the Distortion Analyzer......Page 70
The Oscilloscope......Page 73
The Distortion Analyzer......Page 76
Fourier Analysis......Page 79
Additional Examples......Page 82
Conclusions......Page 97
AC Analysis – Frequency Response......Page 103
Loops with no Resistance......Page 107
Bode Plots......Page 110
Pole-Zero Analysis......Page 113
Examples......Page 120
Conclusions......Page 127
Diodes......Page 133
Bipolar Transistors......Page 136
Junction Field Effect Transistors-JFET's......Page 144
Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors-MOSFET's......Page 153
Additional Examples......Page 158
Conclusions......Page 163
Selected Bibliography......Page 174
Digital Circuit Components......Page 175
Word Generator......Page 179
Logic Converter......Page 180
Examples......Page 184
Conclusions......Page 187
Authors' Biographies......Page 197