Importing a SPICE Netlist

[NatashaB]

Ok, it is officially summer in Toronto with the temperature reaching into the 30s (or for those of you who think in Fahrenheit, it has been hovering around 90F)! The heat has really made it too hot to think, but somehow I have put together a new video for you that shows how to import a SPICE netlist in Multisim. The first method is the best, as it supports all models, devices and parameters supported by Multisim's simulation engine, including PSpice parameters; the second is a little more limited as you will see in the video, but useful to generate the schematic of basic netlists.

At approximately 2 minutes and 37 seconds into the video, you will hear some cheering in the background. While I would like to pretend this is an eager audience cheering for my exhilarating display of the transient analysis in Multisim,  I must admit that it's actually a group of office coworkers (aka soccer fanatics) cheering for a World Cup match. At times like this, I wonder if the LabVIEW Vuvuzela filter could filter out the cheers of my coworkers as well.  Hmm..

Anyway, the Arbitrary SPICE Block is a little-known, but very powerful component that allows the import of a SPICE netlist.