SPICE - Simulation Program Integrated Circuits Especially

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SPICE stands for Simulation Program Integrated Circuits Especially! The program originates from the University of California, Berkeley. Spice is used to provide a reasonably detailed analysis of circuits containing active components such as bipolar transistors, field effect transistors, diodes and lumped components such as resistors, capacitors and inductors. Note that Spice is a circuit simulation program, not a logic simulation program. Thus Spice considers the voltages and currents in a circuit to be continuous quantities, not quantised into high/low values. The original Spice program has given rise to a variety of commercial implementations. At Aberdeen the following versions are available to you:

• HSPICE - running on the Unix systems this is a particularly fast version, and is the one you should normally use. A graphics post processor is available.
  
• PSPICE - a useful version on PCs. Again a graphics post processor is available as well as a schematic capture system and other electronics design tools. For a free evaluation copy, which will simulate many usefull small circuits see the microsim home page.
  
• cdsSpice - available on the HP machines in the CAD lab, and on the Sun machines supplied by the Computing Centre as part of the Cadence CAD environment.
  
• Dolphin SMASH - again a PC version of SPICE with very good transistor modelling features. A free evaluation copy is also available which like the Microsim PSPICE product is limited to small circuits.

Books
SPICE for Power Electronics and Electric Power, Third Edition
Circuit Simulation with SPICE OPUS: Theory and Practice (Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology)

Download @
http://spice-space.org/download.html