Title :
Is SPICE good enough for tomorrow´s analog?
Author :
Nagel, Laurence W. ; McAndrew, Colin C.
Author_Institution :
Omega Enterprises Consulting, Kensington, CA, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8578-9
DOI :
10.1109/BIPOL.2010.5668096
