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SPICE (Simulation Program for Integrated Circuits Emphasis) is an analog circuit simulator developed at Berkeley. Many different versions of SPICE are available from many different vendors.Common SPICEs include HSPICE, PSPICE, and B2SPICE. SPICE takes a circuit netlist and performs mathematical simulation of the circuit's behavior. A netlist describes the components in the circuit and how they are connected. SPICE can simulate DC operating point, AC response, transient response, and other useful simulations.

Spice is a program developed by the EE Department at the University of California at Berkeley for computer simulation of analog circuits. In its original form you tell Spice what elements are in the circuit (resistors, capacitors, etc.), and then enter the circuit diagram as an ASCII file showing what nodes each element is connected to. Every node is assigned a number, and there is always a ground node, which is Number 0. You then tell Spice what information you want -- bias conditions, frequency response, and/or transient response. Spice does the circuit analysis and puts out an ASCII file with the information.

Using Spice is not very intuitive to use because the input is an ASCII file rather than a circuit diagram, and the output is another ASCII file rather than a graph. Several companies have developed graphical user interfaces for Spice, which make it much easier to use. One of the most popular is PSpice.

What's included with the Student Version

• Limited versions of the following products are included in the Student Version of PSpice:
• PSpice A/D 9.1, Web Update 1, including PSpice Schematics 9.1
• Your choice of schematic editors (specify during installation)
• PSpice Schematics 9.1
• Capture 9.1, Web Update 2

• Name: PSPICE Student Version
• Company/Org/Author: Cadence
• Size: 28MB
• Version:  9.1
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