Schematic capture and simulation
 

Hey Teams,
We have a student on our team that has taken an interest in electrical design. He is exploring digital logic and basic circuit design and wants to use some real software instead of FREEWARE for such work. I'd like to find him a schematic capture and simulation software, but I am not clear on what packages are available to teams to use for such an activity. Multisim from NI seems like just what we need but I don't know if we have access to this software. My team uses solidworks and are familiar with the dessault software licensing available to us. I don't see anything from 3DS that offers schematic capture (unless I'm missing something).
Those vendors are my first choice, but I am open to other ideas.

Please share your experience with us as this is a very exciting growth opportunity for our team. I'd like to get them started on a good path aligned to the software used in the Industry.

Re: Schematic capture and simulation
 

Altium has been offering Altium Designer to teams for several years. It is some legitimate software for electronic design. I haven't seen any information for 2017 yet though.

Re: Schematic capture and simulation
 

SPICE was the standard circuit simulation software.

The OrCad PSPICE is really the most complete product out there, and the most used. They have a full suite of products covering image capture to board layout and optimization.

They offer a free OrCad lite to try it out.

MultiSim is National Instuments SPICE based product. I haven't used it, but it looks quite good reading about it. If you could get this donated, I would suggest going this way. A full OrCad license isn't cheap.

Re: Schematic capture and simulation
 

Here is the link to Cadence ORCAD Lite.

http://www.orcad.com/products/orcad-lite-overview

Re: Schematic capture and simulation
 

PSPICE is really the default I see for simulation in the analog domain.
Eagle PCB makes some adequate free and low cost professional PCB layout software.

OrCAD is fantastic and I use it all the time.
Altrium is also very good and I've used it via FIRST quite a few times for FIRST related work.

Re: Schematic capture and simulation
 

Thanks everyone.
We decided to use NI Multisim.
http://forums.ni.com/t5/FIRST-Roboti...e/ta-p/3533182
The license key we have for Labview also activates multisim for his use ;)