Multisim and Ultiboard Idea Exchange

On a good day, can select net in Multisim Transfer and will be identified in Ultiboard.

Sometimes it is difficult to see the net/trace

Ultiboard needs a zoom in function to be able to see the net trace

Ultiboard also needs to highlight in spread sheet the net without having to click on net, and go to results

Goal efficiency, too many button pushes to see in spread sheet.

Also, TRANSFER > highlight just does not work. Have a look at Upverter, down load program and convince yourself. There when net is highlighted since schematic and layout are in single environment the net/trace is highlighted, no extra clicks. Ultiboard needs to be cleaned up, rid of legacy style methods.

Most designers need to find nets in ratsnest many times during the day. Ultiboard if it is to be considered a PRO product needs automatic identification with out highlight or cross probing in multiple steps.

Multsim find NET works great, again goes to results and should just identify in workspace, and have a key to go to the next of the search results.

Every other layout program has an alphanumeric Find function.

Ultiboard, get with the program.

If encrypted models were supported more vendors might be willing to release their models for general use. I've heard quite often from vendors that they don't give out good models because they don't want to make it easier for someone to reverse engineer their parts.

See LTspice for example. It would be great if MS could support LT encrypted models. As it is now I usually have to go back to LTspice to simulate LT devices.

TI also releases encrypted PSPICE models for many of their parts. https://e2e.ti.com/support/development_tools/webench_design_center/f/234/t/36943

This would be great for their switching regulator models. I'd much rather use MS to simulate, as the interface is much more modern (not like an MSDOS app from 1990). It would also save some duplication of work.