Integrated circuits

A team led by EECS professor Donald Pederson develops the Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis (SPICE) — a tool that, along with its derivatives, has been used in the design of almost every integrated circuit since its invention.

SPICE inspired and served as a basis for many other circuit simulation programs in academia, industry and commercial products. Part of the reason for its success is that, in keeping with Berkeley’s core values, it was an early public domain software program with source code available.

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