[SI-LIST] Re: SPICE on the cheap
- From: Mellberg Hans <htmguy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: aldavis@xxxxxxxx, brkapoor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:58:48 -0700 (PDT)
Waking up some of those old tired brain cells, when at
Berkeley in the early 70's, under Don Peterson, we
worked on SPICE and SLICE which were eventually
combined. And yes, it was in FORTRAN. Didn't everyone
take advanced scientific FORTRAN programming?!!!
--- Al Davis <aldavis@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> SPICE refers to a simulator program from the
> University of
> California at Berkeley, and released under BSD
> license as
> free/open-source software.
>
> To be more specific ....
>
> Spice-2 is mostly the work of Larry Nagle, then a
> grad student
> at Berkeley. It is in Fortran, and is the first one
> released
> to the public. As I recall, it was around 1980,
> plus or minus
> a few years.
>
> Spice-3 is a later work at Berkeley that rewrote it
> in C and
> restructured it. It was released in the late 80's.
>
> The license basically lets you do anything you want
> with it,
> provided that you give the appropriate credit to
> UCB. The
> others are derivative works. Others have picked up
> the
> original and made enhancements.
>
> H-SPICE and P-SPICE are commercial versions. They
> took the
> original Berkeley code and added enhancements, and
> they sell it.
>
> Some others are free versions. Some come from
> university
> research. Others are corporate or private efforts.
> Some are
> open source. Some are closed source.
>
> What they all have in common is that they are all
> derived from
> the Berkeley code.
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