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In the 1970s, the Electronics Research Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley developed the Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis (SPICE) , which is a general-purpose integrated circuit (IC) simulator that can be used to check the integrity of circuit designs and predict circuit behaviors at the transistor level.
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Chen, X., Wang, Y., Yang, H. (2017). Introduction. In: Parallel Sparse Direct Solver for Integrated Circuit Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53429-9_1
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