The Slow Start of Fast Spice: A Brief History of Timing
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Abstract
The list of Professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli's research contributions is astounding in length and breadth, yet does not entirely capture what this author believes is his true genius. In so many areas of computer-aided design, Sangiovanni-Vincentelli provided the intellectual framework, often nucleating a research community in the process. Of personal familiarity is the area of transistor-level timing simulation, now better known as "Fast SPICE". In the decades since Sangiovanni-Vincentelli's papers on circuit simulation, relaxation, and third generation techniques, simulation sizes have grown from thousands to millions of transistors, vectorized main frames have given way to GPUs and multicores and clouds, yet his papers are still the defining taxonomy for the field.
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