[sdiy] Electronics Workbench software???

[Tim Stinchcombe]

> Anyone here know what happened to EWB and if you can still 
> buy it? Or what is revision history or compatibility? Looked 
> on e-Bay, no 5.0, can I load 5.0 files in earlier versions?
> 
> I have about 100 little utility circuit for calculating 
> voltage dividers, op-amp bandwidth, FET bias and such (also 
> Buchla simulations like 266, 291, 292), now useless.

They're still around, www.electronicsworkbench.com, and the product is now
called 'Multisim 2001' (I think there may have been a v6 in between now and
what you had then). As far as SPICE simulation sw goes, I don't rate it that
much (I kept finding bugs in it, and after about three months of struggling
with it, they eventually gave me my money back - I'm using something called
'SIMetrix' now, but it ain't cheap!). You should be able to get a free demo
version of Multisim which has size limits (components, nodes) on it to stop
you doing anything too serious, but it may enable you to run some of your
simple stuff again. There are quite a few free and capable SPICE packages
out there, Linear Technologies 'LTSpice' for one. A good list is here:

http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/ECADList.html

Tim

__________________________________________________________
Tim Stinchcombe 

Cheltenham, Glos, UK
email: tim102 at tstinchcombe.freeserve.co.uk