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 (61-70 of 70)

1. Plasmonic Nanophotonics: Coupling Light to Nanostructure via Plasmons

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   Online Presentations | 03 Oct 2005 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev

   The photon is the ultimate unit of information because it packages data in a signal of zero mass and has unmatched speed. The power of light is driving the photonicrevolution, and information technologies, which were formerly entirely electronic, are increasingly enlisting light to communicate...

2. On the Reliability of Micro-Electronic Devices: An Introductory Lecture on Negative Bias Temperature Instability

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   Online Presentations | 28 Sep 2005 | Contributor(s):: Muhammad A. Alam

   In 1930s Bell Labs scientists chose to focus on Siand Ge, rather than better known semiconductors like Ag2S and Cu2S, mostly because of their reliable performance. Their choice was rewarded with the invention of bipolar transistors several years later. In 1960s, scientists at Fairchild worked...

3. Spice3f4

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   Tools | 14 Aug 2005 | Contributor(s):: Michael McLennan

   General-purpose circuit simulation program for nonlinear dc, nonlinear transient, and linear ac analysis

4. Moore's Law Forever?

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   Online Presentations | 13 Jul 2005 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom

   This talk covers the big technological changes in the 20th and 21st century that were correctly predicted by Gordon Moore in 1965. Moore's Law states that the number of transistors on a silicon chip doubles every technology generation. In 1960s terms that meant every 12 months and currently...

5. Nanoelectronics: The New Frontier?

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   Online Presentations | 18 Apr 2005 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom

   After forty years of advances in integrated circuit technology, microelectronics is undergoing a transformation to nanoelectronics. Modern day MOSFETs now have channel lengths of only 50 nm, and billion transistor logic chips have arrived. Moore’s Law continues, but the end of MOSFET scaling is...

6. CMOS Nanotechnology

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   Online Presentations | 07 Jul 2004 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom

   In non-specialist language, this talk introduces CMOS technology used for modern electronics. Beginning with an explanation of "CMOS," the speaker relates basic system considerations of transistor design and identifies future challenges for CMOS electronics. Anyone with an elementary...

7. Transistors

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   Online Presentations | 04 Aug 2004 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom

   The transistor is the basic element of electronic systems. The integrated circuits inside today's personal computers, cell phones, PDA's, etc., contain hundreds of millions of transistors on a chip of silicon about 2 cm on a side. Each technology generation, engineers shrink the size of...

8. NanoMOS 2.5 Source Code Download

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   Downloads | 22 Feb 2005 | Contributor(s):: Zhibin Ren, Sebastien Goasguen

   NanoMOS is a 2-D simulator for thin body (less than 5 nm), fully depleted, double-gated n-MOSFETs. A choice of five transport models is available (drift-diffusion, classical ballistic, energy transport, quantum ballistic, and quantum diffusive). The transport models treat quantum effects in the...

9. Exponential Challenges, Exponential Rewards - The Future of Moore's Law

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   Online Presentations | 14 Dec 2004 | Contributor(s):: Shekhar Borkar

   Three exponentials have been the foundation of today's electronics, which are often taken for granted—namely transistor density, performance, and energy. Moore's Law captures the impact of these exponentials. Exponentially increasing transistor integration capacity, and...

10. Nanoelectronics and the Future of Microelectronics

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    Online Presentations | 22 Aug 2002 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom

    Progress in silicon technology continues to outpace the historic pace of Moore's Law, but the end of device scaling now seems to be only 10-15 years away. As a result, there is intense interest in new, molecular-scale devices that might complement a basic silicon platform by providing it...