SPICE
Science & Engineering abbreviation · Electronics & Electrical
| Stands for | Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis |
|---|---|
| Categories | Science & Engineering |
SPICE stands for Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis, an electronics & electrical abbreviation.
Circuit simulation program, and family of descendant programs, that predicts voltages and currents in analog and mixed-signal circuits from a netlist of components and device models. Engineers use SPICE to test designs before building them.
Example: A SPICE simulation showed the filter's cutoff frequency at 1.02 kHz, close to the calculated value.
Usage notes
Laurence Nagel developed SPICE under Donald Pederson at the University of California, Berkeley, released in 1973; its open distribution made it an industry standard. Popular versions include LTspice, PSpice and ngspice. Manufacturers publish SPICE models of their components.
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