DocumentCode
1648896
Title
Is SPICE good enough for tomorrow´s analog?
Author
Nagel, Laurence W. ; McAndrew, Colin C.
Author_Institution
Omega Enterprises Consulting, Kensington, CA, USA
fYear
2010
Firstpage
106
Lastpage
112
Abstract
SPICE is nearly 40 years old and has played an important part in the design of thousands of circuits, both integrated and discrete. While the size and complexity of integrated circuits has increased exponentially over the lifetime of SPICE, reports of the obsolescence of SPICE are greatly exaggerated. This paper describes the evolutionary changes in SPICE and the underlying compact models employed by SPICE that will be required to continue the design of analog integrated circuits for the next forty years.
Keywords
SPICE; analogue integrated circuits; circuit complexity; integrated circuit design; SPICE; analog integrated circuit design; compact models; integrated circuit complexity; Complexity theory; Integrated circuit modeling; Radio frequency; SPICE; Semiconductor device modeling; Transistors; SPICE; analog circuit design; bipolar modeling and simulation; circuit simulation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location
Austin, TX
ISSN
1088-9299
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-8578-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/BIPOL.2010.5668096
Filename
5668096
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