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Description

In 1973, SPICE was introduced to the world by Professor Donald O. Pederson of the University of California at Berkeley, and a new era of computer-aided design (CAD) tools was born. As its name implies, SPICE is a "Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis." You give it a description of an electrical circuit, made up of resistors, capacitors, inductors, and power sources, and SPICE will predict the performance of that circuit. Instead of bread-boarding new designs in the lab, circuit designers found they could optimize their designs on computers–in effect, using computers to build better computers. Since its introduction, SPICE has been commercialized and released in a dozen variants, such as H-SPICE, P-SPICE, and ADVICE.

Learn more about circuit simulation from the resources on this site, listed below. You might even acquire a taste for SPICE by running examples online.

Online Presentations (1-20 of 45)

  1. Modeling Radiation Effects from the Component Level to the System Level

    Online Presentations | 24 Oct 2023 | Contributor(s):: Ronald Schrimpf

  2. 3D Printed Electronics: A Primer

    Online Presentations | 10 May 2023 | Contributor(s):: Frank Silva, The Micro Nano Technology - Education Center

  3. Superconducting Qubits, Hybrid Devices, and Circuit Architectures

    Online Presentations | 08 Sep 2022 | Contributor(s):: Ramya Suresh

    Superconducting circuits are a popular platform for quantum computing and simulations, demonstrating several advantages such as improved coherence and robustness compared to trapped-ion, NV center, or ultracold-atom technologies. Custom circuits can be easily designed to mimic the physics of...

  4. Exploring Synthetic Quantum Materials in Superconducting Circuits

    Online Presentations | 30 Apr 2020

    Superconducting circuits have emerged as a competitive platform for quantum computation, satisfying the challenges of controllability, long coherence and strong interactions. I will show our recent experiments to apply this toolbox to the exploration of strongly correlated quantum materials made...

  5. Introduction to Electronics

    Online Presentations | 17 Apr 2020 | Contributor(s):: Center for E3S, Aaron Ragsdale

    Aaron Ragsdale, a former Master's student and researcher at Stanford University, leads an introductory course on common components, devices and elementary design techniques. This course consists of four modules: 1: Fundamental Variables & Electrical Components 2: Circuit...

  6. [Illinois] Photonic Integrated Circuit Chips and Modules

    Online Presentations | 13 Apr 2017 | Contributor(s):: Frederick A. Kish

    9/8/2016 MNTL Industry Affiliates Program

  7. [Illinois] MCB 493 Lecture 2: Recurrent Connections and Simple Neural Circuits

    Online Presentations | 29 Oct 2013 | Contributor(s):: Thomas J. Anastasio

    Networks with recurrent connections, forming circuits, and containing only a few neural units can shape signals in time, produce oscillations, and simulate certain forms of low-level motor control.

  8. Transformative Power Semiconductor Technologies to Impact 21st Century Energy Economy, and Space and Defense Electronics

    Online Presentations | 22 Sep 2010 | Contributor(s):: Krishna Shenai

    This talk will focus on advanced power semiconductor materials, devices, circuits and systems that are needed in order to address this daunting challenge. Specifically we will discuss emerging silicon and wide bandgap materials and power devices, heterogeneous chip-scale power integration,...

  9. Metal Oxide Nanowires as Gas Sensing Elements: from Basic Research to Real World Applications

    Online Presentations | 21 Sep 2009 | Contributor(s):: andrei kolmakov

    Quasi 1-D metal oxide single crystal chemiresistors are close to occupy their specific niche in the real world of solid state sensorics. Potentially, the major advantage of this kind of sensors with respect to available granular thin film sensors will be their size and stable, reproducible and...

  10. MCW07 Exploring Trends in Conductance for Well-Defined Single Molecule Circuits

    Online Presentations | 04 Apr 2009 | Contributor(s):: Mark S Hybertsen

    In our recent research, we have been able to measure and characterize the impact of intrinsic molecular properties on the conductance of single molecule circuits formed with amine-gold linkages. In this talk, I will review the experiments and the physical picture of the junction based on the...

  11. Quantitative, Kinetic Models of Cellular Circuits

    Online Presentations | 04 Apr 2009 | Contributor(s):: Michael R. Brent

    Living cells contain complex, analog circuits that regulate the rate at which each gene produces its product. The kinetic properties of these circuits enable cells to respond to changes in their environments and thus to survive, reproduce, and compete. For decades, molecular biologists have been...

  12. Energy and Nanoscience A More Perfect Union

    Online Presentations | 29 Mar 2009 | Contributor(s):: Mark Ratner

    Huge problems of energy and sustainability confront the science/engineering community, mankind, and our planet. The energy problem comes in many dimensions, including supply, demand, conservation, transportation, and storage. This overview will stress the nature of these problems, and offer a few...

  13. ECE 612 Lecture 22: CMOS Circuit Essentials

    Online Presentations | 24 Nov 2008 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom

    Outline: 1) The CMOS inverter,2) Speed,3) Power,4) Circuit performance,5) Metrics,6) Limits.This lecture is an overview of CMOS circuits. For a more detailed presentation, the following lectures from the Fall 2006 teaching of this course should be viewed:Lecture 24: CMOS Circuits, Part I (Fall...

  14. Exploring CMOS-Nano Hybrid Technology in Three Dimensions

    Online Presentations | 31 Mar 2008 | Contributor(s):: Wei Wang

    CMOS-nano hybrid technology incorporate the advantages of both traditional CMOS and novel nanowire/nanotube structures, which will enhance future IC performances and create long-term breakthroughs. The CMOS-nano hybrid IC can be efficiently fabricated using the 3D integration approach. This talk...

  15. Multiphase Gallium Nitride Nanowires and Nanocircuits

    Online Presentations | 04 Feb 2008 | Contributor(s):: Virginia M. Ayres

    Catalyst-free vapor-solid nanowire growth, a newly described method for the production of nanowires compatible with a wide variety of semiconductor materials, has been used to produce novel multiphase zinc-blende/wurtzite gallium nitride nanowires. Orientation relation-ships within the multiphase...

  16. New Dimension in Performance: Harnessing 3D Integration Technology

    Online Presentations | 29 Nov 2007 | Contributor(s):: Kerry Bernstein

    Despite generation on generation of scaling, computer chips have remained essentially 2-dimensional. Improvements in on-chip wire delay, and in the total number of inputs and outputs has not been able to keep up with improvements to the transistor, and its getting harder and harder to hide it! 3D...

  17. On the Rise of an Electronic Species: Thoughts on the Impending Singularity

    Online Presentations | 29 Nov 2007 | Contributor(s):: Kerry Bernstein

    The human brain is vastly more complex that our best supercomputers; yet it can be argued that both systems evolve towards common underlying solutions to fundamental compute problems. Biologically-inspired electronic technologies already are enabling new products, and inversely, nano-electronics...

  18. Simulating with PETE: Purdue Exploratory Technology Evaluator

    Online Presentations | 25 Sep 2007 | Contributor(s):: Arijit Raychowdhury

    Using PETE one can evaluate any MOSFET like devices or any New Devices in terms of performance on Benchmark circuits. The input to the tool can be in terms of typical MOSFET parameters or in terms of I-V and C-V tables. The Benchmark circuits include minimum sized inverter, nand chain, norchain,...

  19. MCW07 Conductance Switching in Fluorene/TiO2 Molecular Heterojunctions

    Online Presentations | 13 Sep 2007 | Contributor(s):: Richard L.McCreery

    Molecular junctions consisting of a monolayer of fluorene and 10 nm of TiO2 between conducting contacts exhibit a memory effect upon positive polarization of the of the TiO2 for a few milliseconds. The junction conductance increases for a period of several minutes, but can be “erased” by a...

  20. Amine Linked Single Molecule Circuits: Systematic Measurements & Understanding

    Online Presentations | 02 Jul 2007 | Contributor(s):: Mark S Hybertsen

    Formation and function of well-defined linkages between organic molecules and metallic electrodes has been a key issue in the field of molecular electronics. We recently discovered that the conductance of single molecule junctions formed using gold-amine linkages can be measured reliably and...