This book is a companion for the Circuit Analysis and Simulation book published in 2011. That book covers basic analyses with Multisim. This book is concerned with advanced analyses. That is, those analyses that are more specialized and that can be done after a circuit has been tested with one or more of the types of analyses covered in the companion book.
The book starts by presenting a way to modify models and offering two techniques to create subcircuits. Thus, users can build their own libraries containing parts, models, and subcircuits. The second chapter covers transmission lines. They are very important in the simulation of integrated circuits, but they can be used to simulate other kind of circuits like, for example, digital filters. The third chapter covers advanced topics such as sensitivity, noise, Monte Carlo and worst-case, parametric, and temperature analyses. Each of these analyses is usually carried out after any one of the basic analyses has been finished and the behavior of the circuit is satisfactory to the designer. Thus, many of the characteristics of the circuit can be thoroughly evaluated. The fourth chapter is devoted to the simulation of microcontrollers. This is a unique feature to Multisim, that is, the incorporation of microcontrollers in a circuit simulation together with analog components in a mixed-mode fashion. Two of the most popular microcontrollers are available in the microcontroller libraries. The last chapter is devoted to printed circuit board (PCB) design using Ultiboard, which is a tool especially designed for this purpose. Two examples illustrate the procedure for the PCB design.
Two of the authors (DBL and OCV) acknowledge the help provided by our undergraduate students Carmen María Saavedra, Gerardo de la Rosa, Miguel Angel Juárez Rivas, Ricardo Gómez Crespo, and Daniel Treviño García for simulating each one of the circuits and providing valuable feedback to improve the book.
The authors also thank their families for the continued support during the writing of both books, for their patience and understanding.
David Báez-López, Félix E. Guerrero-Castro, and Ofelia Cervantes-Villagómez