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Donald Pederson, chip scientist, dies at 79 (NYTimes)
The New York Times covers
the death of Donald Pederson, a computer scientist who oversaw the creation
of a widely used tool for the design of electronic circuits.
"Designers of computer chips need to know how those chips will behave
before they make them, but in the 1960s, the software available for
simulating the behavior of integrated circuits was slow and unreliable.
That changed in 1972, when Pederson's laboratory at the University of
California, Berkeley, created a fast and accurate program called Simulation
Program with Integrated Circuits Emphasis, or Spice." (Thanks to
horen)
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Donald Pederson, chip scientist, dies at 79 (NYTimes) Posted Jan 12, 2005 18:17 UTC (Wed) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link] RIP, Donald Pederson, and thanks for your contributions.
I got to maintain an early copy of SPICE on a CDC mainframe back circa 1979-80. Massive Fortran (FTN4) program that did all sorts of bizarre things like writing machine code into an array and then executing it (which I cursed thoroughly at the time). Its descendants, both direct and in spirit, are still doing well today.
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