Reference Designs and Templates for Digilent Boards

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Hello Circuit Educators,

Our new application engineering intern has been busy the last few weeks churning out reference designs and templates for some of the more popular Digilent boards. For those who may not know Digilent designs and manufactures electrical engineering products including digital and analog trainer boards for technology based education. For a great introduction to working with Digilent Boards in Multisim click here.

The following designs and templates are available:

• chipKIT Basic I/O Shield an input/output expansion board designed for use with chipKIT microcontroller boards
• Peripheral Modules (Pmods) four interface board reference designs and layout files that extend the capabilities of Digilent FPGA boards
• Cmod S6 FPGA Board Template a starting point for the development of daughter boards for the Digilent Cmod S6 FPGA board

You will require Circuit Design Suite (Multisim and Ultiboard) version 13.0 (or later) to be able to utilize these resources. There is a new user component library that you merge with your existing library, which adds the additional symbols and footprints used in the reference design or template. User defined templates are a new feature in Multisim and Ultiboard that provide a starting point to begin designing circuits and PCB layouts. With a template various elements such as connector placement, critical devices and board layout can be pre-configured to aid in the design process.

Let me know if you have any feedback or questions on this or any other Multisim topics.

Campbell B

National Instruments