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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 39)

  1. A Primer on Semiconductor Device Simulation

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    23 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

    Computer simulation is now an essential tool for the research and development of semiconductor processes and devices, but to use a simulation tool intelligently, one must know what's "under the...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/980

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

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    02 Jul 2007 | Online Presentations | 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...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/2894

  3. An Electrical Engineering Perspective on Molecular Electronics

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    26 Oct 2005 | Online Presentations | 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 that are less than...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/513

  4. Atomic Force Microscopy

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    29 Nov 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Arvind Raman

    Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is an indispensible tool in nano science for the fabrication, metrology, manipulation, and property characterization of nanostructures. This tutorial reviews some of...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/520

  5. CMOS Nanotechnology

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    25 May 2005 | Online Presentations | 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...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/166

  6. CMOS-Nano Hybrid Technology: a nanoFPGA-related study

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    04 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Wei Wang

    Dr. Wei Wang received his PhD degree in 2002 from Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, in Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 2002 to 2004, he was an assistant professor in the...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/2567

  7. ECE 612 Lecture 22: CMOS Circuit Essentials

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    24 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | 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...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/5927

  8. ECE 612 Lecture 2: Introduction to Device Simulation

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    08 Aug 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

    https://nanohub.org/resources/1699

  9. Energy and Nanoscience A More Perfect Union

    29 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark A. 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,...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/6554

  10. Exploring CMOS-Nano Hybrid Technology in Three Dimensions

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    31 Mar 2008 | Online Presentations | 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...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/4216

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

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    14 Dec 2004 | Online Presentations | 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...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/177

  12. History of Semiconductor Engineering

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    28 Jun 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Bo Lojek

    When basic researchers started working on semiconductors during the late nineteen thirties and on integrated circuits at the end of the nineteen fifties, they did not know that their work would...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/1609

  13. Investigation of the Electrical Characteristics of Triple-Gate FinFETs and Silicon-Nanowire FETs

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    16 Aug 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Monica Taba, Gerhard Klimeck

    Electrical characteristics of various Fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs) and silicon-nanowires were analyzed and compared using a modified three-dimensional self-consistent quantum-mechanical...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/1715

  14. Logic Devices and Circuits on Carbon Nanotubes

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    23 May 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Joerg Appenzeller

    Over the last years carbon nanotubes (CNs) have attracted an increasing interest as building blocks for nano-electronics applications. Due to their unique properties enabling e.g. ballistic...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/1487

  15. MCW07 Conductance Switching in Fluorene/TiO2 Molecular Heterojunctions

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    13 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | 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...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/3071

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

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    04 Apr 2009 | Online Presentations | 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....

    https://nanohub.org/resources/3077

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

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    21 Sep 2009 | Online Presentations | 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...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/5738

  18. Modeling and Analysis of VLSI Interconnects

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    10 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Cheng-Kok Koh

    With continual technology scaling, the accurate and efficient modeling and simulation of interconnect effects have become problems of central importance. In order to accurately model the...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/2698

  19. Molecular Transport Structures: Elastic Scattering, Vibronic Effects and Beyond

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    13 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark A. Ratner, Abraham Nitzan, Misha Galperin

    Current experimental efforts are clarifying quite beautifully the nature of charge transport in so-called molecular junctions, in which a single molecule provides the channel for current flow...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/1018

  20. Moore's Law Forever?

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    10 Aug 2005 | Online Presentations | 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...

    https://nanohub.org/resources/188