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From: rang@ics.uci.edu (Roger Penaranda Jr. Ang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Spice
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Date: 9 Mar 90 19:48:03 GMT
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In article <3150@d75.UUCP> mikew@reed.UUCP () writes:
>Boy do I feel stupid. What is spice?

	I don't really know about this myself and this posting is really a
chance to solicit info. from people out there in the industry, being I most
likely will do research in hardware.

	From what I can guess, Spice is a language/file format for describing
low level hardware designs, i.e. down to the logic gate or transistor level.
I have gotten to play around in a couple of CAD labs (one, Mac II's running
DesignWorks; the other, Suns using GDT) and both support writing Spice files,
so I assume use of Spice is pretty widespread.

	Now for a few technical questions.  Are ASpice files usable by GDT?  I
don't mind too much writing small modules in L language, is Spice similar to
it?   Also, if anyone can correct or expand on any of the above, please feel
free.

                                        Roger P. Ang (rang@ICS.UCI.EDU)
Irvine? Where's Irvine?                 a poor Grad student at the
In the heart of the Orange Curtain.     Dept. of Information & Computer Sci.
Oh no! The poor fool.                   Univ. of California, Irvine.