Editing SPICE (section)

{{Short description|Open source analog electronic circuit simulator}}
{{other uses|Spice (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox software
| title = SPICE 1
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| author = [[:de:Larry Nagel|Laurence Nagel]]
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| released = {{Start date and age|1973}}
| discontinued = Yes
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| programming language = [[Fortran]]
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| language = English
| genre = [[Electronic circuit simulation]]
| license = [[Public-domain software|Public domain]]
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{{Infobox software
| title = SPICE 2
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| released = {{Start date and age|1975}}
| discontinued = Yes
| latest release version = 2G.6
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|1983}}
| programming language = [[Fortran]]
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| language = English
| genre = [[Electronic circuit simulation]]
| license = [[BSD licenses#3-clause license|BSD 3-clause]]
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{{Infobox software
| title = SPICE 3
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| author = Thomas Quarles
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| released = {{Start date and age|1989}}
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| latest release version = 3f.5
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|1993|07}}
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
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| language = English
| genre = [[Electronic circuit simulation]]
| license = [[BSD licenses#2-clause|BSD 2-clause]]
| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20231208045915/http://bwrcs.eecs.berkeley.edu/Classes/IcBook/SPICE/ Archived webpage]
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'''SPICE''' ('''Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis''')<ref name=spice1>{{cite tech report |last1=Nagel |first1=Laurence W. |last2=Pederson |first2=D. O |url=http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1973/22871.html |title=SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) |number=UCB/ERL M382 |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |date=April 1973}}</ref><ref name=spice2>{{cite tech report |last=Nagel |first=Laurence W. |title=SPICE2: A Computer Program to Simulate Semiconductor Circuits |number=UCB/ERL M520 |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |date=May 1975 |url=https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1975/9602.html}}</ref> is a general-purpose, [[open-source software|open-source]] [[Analogue electronics|analog electronic circuit]] [[Electronic circuit simulation|simulator]].
It is a program used in [[integrated circuit]] and board-level design to check the integrity of [[circuit design]]s and to predict [[Electronic circuit|circuit]] behavior.