Is SPICE good enough for tomorrow's analog?

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.

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