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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.

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  1. 3D Printed Electronics: A Primer

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

  2. A methodology for SPICE-compatible modeling of nanoMOSFETs

    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...

  3. A Primer on Semiconductor Device Simulation

    23 Jan 2006 | | 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 hood." This talk is a tutorial introduction designed for someone using semiconductor...

  4. a TCAD Lab

    29 Oct 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck, Dragica Vasileska

    An Assembly of TCAD tools for circuit, device, and process simulation

  5. a TCAD Lab

    Introduction to TCAD Simulation The existing semiconductor industry is now fundamentally built on the assumption that almost every aspect of a chip is first designed in software. Process...

    https://nanohub.org/wiki/aTCADLab

  6. A UCSD analytic TFET model

    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...

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

    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...

  8. An Electrical Engineering Perspective on Molecular Electronics

    26 Oct 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 that are less than 50 nm long, and billion transistor logic chips have arrived. Moore's Law continues, but the end of...

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

    21 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...

  10. Atomic Force Microscopy

    01 Dec 2005 | | 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 the physics of the interaction forces between the nanoscale tip and sample, the dynamics of the...

  11. Circuit Elements

    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.

  12. CMOS Nanotechnology

    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...

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

    04 Apr 2007 | | 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 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada....

  14. Delta-Wye

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

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

  15. ECE 612 Lecture 22: CMOS Circuit Essentials

    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...

  16. ECE 612 Lecture 2: Introduction to Device Simulation

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

  17. Energy and Nanoscience A More Perfect Union

    27 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...

  18. Exploring CMOS-Nano Hybrid Technology in Three Dimensions

    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...

  19. Exploring Synthetic Quantum Materials in Superconducting Circuits

    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...

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

    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...