LTSpice : Legacy Relic or IC Designer's Secret Weapon

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The Story of the Last Survivor

In the "Wild West" days of Silicon Valley, IC design was a frontier defined by PhD-level experimentation. Every major player took the foundational SPICE code from Berkeley, optimized it, and branched off. While those early simulators formed the foundation of the current EDA industry, nearly every one of them has long since vanished and remain only on backup tapes somewhere in the basements of Silicon Valley.

Except for one - LTSpice

Through a stroke of marketing genius, Linear Technology turned their internal high-performance SPICE engine into a gift for the masses. By bundling it with their entire product library and giving it away for free, LTSpice became the most widely used circuit simulator on the planet. Yet, in a strange twist of irony, it is now least used in the very field for which it was originally built - Integrated Circuit (IC) design.

Today's IC designers have access to the most advanced simulators in the world, but only when they are assigned to a projects with the budgets to pay for a limited number of licenses often more expensive than their annual salaries, and only authorized to use those licenses for the project at hand.

Join us for this seminar as we strip away the "hobbyist" label and show you how to leverage LTSpice as a professional IC designer.

We spend millions on EDA tools to verify our designs. Use LTSpice to invent them.