SPICE is a circuit simulation tool written at the University of California Berkeley. It has been available to the public since the mid-1970s. SPICE is an acronym for Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis. SPICE is mature and reliable software. It is considered the industry standard integrated circuit simulator. Many versions of SPICE are available. At MSOE, the PSPICE version is available through the Add/Remove programs feature of Microsoft Windows. For Macintosh users, the MacSPICE program is excellent software. Linux users will also find precompiled packages of SPICE in most port collections.
Students in CE4940 will use SPICE extensively. Students should install SPICE from the MSOE software repository before coming to the second lecture.
If you are not able to install PSPICE from the MSOE software repository, you can find a zip file of the installer here.
Electric is a VLSI computer-aided design software package with nearly thirty years of development history. It has been rewritten from C into highly optimized Java binary code. It is widely used in both industry and academic environments.
C is a procedural programming language commonly used in automated design software. The success of C optimizing compilers results in high-performance automation software. And, C is available on nearly every computing platform making it ideal for cross-platform development.