What do SPICE and MAGIC stand for ?

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3 total messages Started by Harry Langenbacher Thu, 07 Jan 1993 00:19

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Author: Harry Langenbacher
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 00:19

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If anyone knows the historical origin of the names SPICE
and MAGIC I would greatly appreciate getting the information.

I say it's like asking what Langenbacher stands for, but some
bureaucrat is holding up our proposal until we can answer
the magic trivia question and put some spice into his life.
If anyone knows what beaurowcrat stands for I'd like to
know that too.

		Thanks,
			Harry

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Re: What do SPICE and MAGIC stand for ?

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Author: Santhanam Srinivasan
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 01:53

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In article <1993Jan7.001908.29093@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>, harry@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Harry Langenbacher) writes:
|> If anyone knows the historical origin of the names SPICE
|> and MAGIC I would greatly appreciate getting the information. 

SPICE: Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis

-S.S.

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Re: What do SPICE and MAGIC stand for ?

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Author: Bob Mayo
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 18:56

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In article <1993Jan7.015346.7803@Princeton.EDU> srinivas@wolf.Princeton.EDU (Santhanam Srinivasan) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.001908.29093@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>, harry@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Harry Langenbacher) writes:
>|> If anyone knows the historical origin of the names SPICE
>|> and MAGIC I would greatly appreciate getting the information. 
>
>SPICE: Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis

Magic doesn't stand for anything.  If cooking up a nice meaning for magic
is necessary for your grant proprosal, the best I've heard is Manhatten
Artwork Generator for Integrated Circuits.  But that was developed after the
fact.  Magic's original name was Caddy, but was changed because a company
started by that name.  There is still at least one place in the source where
the comments refer to either caddy or .cad (now .mag) files.  AT&T sent us
a letter in 1983 telling us we were conflicting with the name of their
graphics package called magic.  We mentioned this fact at our talk at
the 1983 DAC and people in the audience gave us a long list of packages
with the name magic, going back years.  The name magic has been used
for everything from circuit extractors (at Xerox PARC, maybe?), to a
gate array cad package, to a steel mill control program used in Japan.

--Bob

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