Last reviewed: 15 September 2026
SPICE was developed by the EECS department at UC Berkeley under the leadership of Donald Pederson, Larry Nagel, Richard Newton and many others. This fork (with KLU solver integration) was maintained and modified by Nachiket Kapre at Nanyang Technological University. This page is retained as a historical archive.
Software on this page is made available and distributed under license.
The best introduction to SPICE is the Berkeley webpage.
A summary paper and book chapter are good high-level overviews of my FPGA SPICE acceleration work.
The FCCM 2009, FPL 2009, FPT 2009, and FPT 2011 conference papers show how to accelerate the three different phases of SPICE:
The simulator source code was historically hosted on Assembla. The repository addresses below are retained for archival reference and may no longer be active.
git@git.assembla.com:spice3f5.git
git@git.assembla.com:spice3f5_klu.git
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev libsuitesparse-dev libreadline6-dev libxaw7-dev colormake; mkdir -p workspace; git clone git@git.assembla.com:spice3f5.git; cd spice3f5; colormake; colormake install; ./debian/spice3f5/bin/spice3 -b cap.spice