SPICE3: Prehistory, The Dark Age and Renaissance

[more: Paolo Nenzi, "ngSpice - a GNU standardization perspective" at MOS-AK/Helsinki]

Digging into Technology's Past

This detailed line drawing of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor is a physical description of all the connections between the various circuits on the chip. (Courtesy Greg James, Visual 6502, more in archaeology by Nikhil Swaminathan)

FAST-SPICE BETA TESTERS WANTED

All participants in the beta-testing program will receive the Symica Fast-SPICE product SymSpice Turbo as a free addition to the Symica tool suite. If you'd like to be a beta tester for the SymSpice Turbo, please send a request to support@symica.com. [more at: http://www.symica.com/news/fast-spice-beta-testers-wanted]

Ballot of May 28, 1948

more at flickr by johngineer

“The Ugly Duckling,” New Fairy Tales

"The developments of UF process-based “compact” MOSFET models have been reviewed, and exemplary new physical insights on SOI devices attained with the models have been overviewed. Indeed, the UF models have been, and are effective research/education tools. The “ugly duckling” has prevailed, just like in the fairy tale (illustrated in Fig. 10) [19]!" J. G. Fossum

[19] H. C. Anderson, “The Ugly Duckling,” New Fairy Tales. C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov. 1843.

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J. Fossum, “UF ‘ Compact ’ Models : A Historical Perspective,” Nanotech, vol. 2, pp. 714 - 719, 2011.