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.

Resources (1-20 of 69)

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. Nanotechnology in Electronics: An Introduction to the units on LEDs, Thermistors, and Transistors

   Teaching Materials | 12 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Jacyln Murray, NNCI Nano

   The purpose of the following group of lab units is to illustrate properties associated with nanotechnology and the electronics industry through utilization of semiconductors.  By using macro-examples of actual nano-circuitry, students will understand what is happening on the...

7. [Illinois] Photonic Integrated Circuit Chips and Modules

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

   9/8/2016 MNTL Industry Affiliates Program

8. A UCSD analytic TFET model

   Downloads | 18 Dec 2015 | Contributor(s):: Jianzhi Wu, Yuan Taur

   A continuous, analytic I-V model is developed for double-gate and nanowire tunnel FETs with 3D density of states, including depletion in the source. At the core of the model is a gate-controlled channel potential that satisfies the source and drain boundary conditions. Verified by...

9. Quantum Workshop III: LED Circuit and Device Physics

   Teaching Materials | 07 Feb 2015 | Contributor(s):: Stella Quinones

   A hands-on learning exercise used to illustrate the device physics of a light emitting diode (LED) in a simple resistor circuit.  Students explore the photon energy of four LEDs, compare the voltage drop (or forward bias) across the LED, and explain the behavior of the LED under...

10. [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.

11. SPICE Model of Graphene Nanoribbon FETs (GNRFET)

    Downloads | 12 Jul 2013 | Contributor(s):: Ying-Yu Chen, Morteza Gholipour, Artem Rogachev, Amit Sangai, Deming Chen

    This is a SPICE compatible model for both MOS- and Schottky-Barrier-type Graphene Nano-Ribbons Field-Effect Transistor. These MOS-GNRFET and SB-GNRFET models are implemented in HSPICE and can be used for circuit simulations. The model is implemented based on the...

12. An Overview of Fourth Fundamental Circuit Element- 'The Memristor'

    Papers | 22 Jan 2013 | Contributor(s):: Tukaram Dattatray Dongale

    The fourth fundamental circuit element- Memristor, was mathematically predicted by Prof. Leon Chua in his seminal research paper in IEEE Transaction on Circuit Theory on the symmetric background. After four decade in 2008, researchers at the Hewlett–Packard (HP) laboratories reported the...

13. Passive Filter Circuits

    Tools | 12 Jul 2012 | Contributor(s):: Rhea Khanna, Ogaga Daniel Odele, Krishna P. C. Madhavan, Aung Kyi San

    Simulation of first and second order Passive Filter circuits.

14. Ohms Law

    Tools | 24 Apr 2012 | Contributor(s):: Robert Benjamin Post, Stella Quinones

    Calculate and observe the relationship between current, voltage, resistance, and power.

15. Series and Parallel

    Tools | 17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s):: Emmanuel Jose Ochoa, Stella Quinones

    Examine the resistance, R, inductance, L, or capacitance, C, of multiple elements in series or in parallel.

16. Delta-Wye

    Tools | 17 Apr 2012 | Contributor(s):: Robert Benjamin Post, Stella Quinones

    Convert from Delta to Wye configuration for resistances, and vice versa.

17. Multimeter

    Tools | 10 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s):: Emmanuel Jose Ochoa, Stella Quinones

    Understand the correct procedure for measuring voltage (V) and current (I), and observe the dependence between the interchange of the leads and the sign of the numerical reading.

18. Circuit Elements

    Tools | 17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s):: Emmanuel Jose Ochoa, Stella Quinones

    Understand the dependence of resistance, R, inductance, L, and capacitance, C, on physical dimensions and material properties.

19. Resistor Color Code

    Tools | 10 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s):: Robert Benjamin Post, Stella Quinones

    Apply the color code to determine the resistance value of a resistor or input a resistance value and determine the color code of the resistor.

20. A methodology for SPICE-compatible modeling of nanoMOSFETs

    Teaching Materials | 17 Nov 2010 | Contributor(s):: Alba Graciela Avila, David Espejo

    An original SPICE-compatible model for Intel's 45nm High-K MOSFET is presented. It takes into account some Quantum-Mechanical Effects that occur at small scale like Channel Length Modulation (CLM), Threshold Voltage variation and Velocity saturation, and is the first in his class that is not...