Bob, W8SX, sent me an interesting article from EDN on the recent commemoration of the 40th anniversary of our beloved SPICE program. Check it out:
http://www.edn.com/blog/IC_Design_Corner/40584-SPICE_a_40_year_old_open_source_success_story.php
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You said: *"Funny .. even the ARRL has removed the de facto 21.430 MHz AM
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That's a great article, Bill, thanks. Worth reading to remind us all how spectacularly powerful even a roadkill PC is compared with the top machines not so long ago.
ReplyDeleteI was once in a workshop held by IEEE Circuits and Systems (CANDE) where we made long-term predictions over beer and BBQ. A major question was whether a better program than SPICE would come along soon. Many of us thought good old SPICE's days were numbered. That workshop was in 1986.