SPICE is an acronym for Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis and was inspired by the need to accurately model devices used in integrated circuit design.
It has now become the standard computer program for electrical and electronic simulation.
The majority of commercial packages are based on SPICE2 version G6 from the University of California at Berkeley although development has now progressed to SPICE3.
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http://homepages.which.net/~paul.hills/Circuits/Spice/Spice.html
06/2005/2006