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Major confusion for me, as SPICE is well known circuit simulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE Using it often. Mostl
by IndrekR 5d ago
Major confusion for me, as SPICE is well known circuit simulator:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE
Using it often. Mostly via ngspice nowadays:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngspice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngspice
- pjmlp 5d agoIndeed, it was what we used in digital circuits lab exercises back in the 90's.
- chrisandchris 5d agoPeople who work with virtualization on Linux will (hopefully) all know what SPICE is. Edit: typo
- hulitu 4d agoYes, a circuit simulator.
- IndrekR 5d ago> with visualization on Linux You mean ‘virtualization’ here, I guess.
- nocman 5d agoNope. I work with virtualization on Linux every day, and have done so for many years (and many varieties of virtualization). I didn't recognize it by the name, and I don't remember hearing about it before.
- Hizonner 5d agoPeople who know what both of them are (hello) still won't know which one the headline is talking about. The circuit one is definitely older, probably has more users, and is just as relevant in this forum.
- kazinator 5d agoI would never call a software project SPICE; I use a fucking search engine when naming things to avoid the cringe of ignorantly landing on a dupe. (And also use SPICE in the LTSpice incarnation; I should give ngspice a spin one of these days.)
- kragen 5d agoYou're absolutely fucking right. Ngspice is okay but it's a bit clumsy switching between it and xschem.
- Animats 5d agoAgreed. The SPICE electronics simulator is over fifty years old, and is still very important to people who have to design electronics. It's inside many other electronics design tools. It's standard enough that when a manufacturer comes out with a new analog IC, they often provide a SPICE model for it. Otherwise nobody wants to design it into their circuit. Reusing the name for another program is like calling something new FORTRAN. (I had nothing to do with SPICE, other than as a user. It's by Laurence Nagel, and I'm John Nagle. Not related.)
- rjsw 5d agoWe could speedrun this and just call every product "the thing".
- ginsider_oaks 5d agoThat name's already used by an even older technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28listening_device%29?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28listening_device%...
- lloydatkinson 5d agoTalking of cringe, the author of the README spent more time including their barely disguised fetish pony than explaining what "SPICE" is.
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- weinzierl 5d agoOnce interviewed for an automotive embedded software position and they asked me if I was familiar with SPICE. Naturally assumed they meant the circuit simulator, answered yes and they did not dig deeper Only later in the job I realized that they had meant Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination.
- hulitu 4d agoIt is called ASPICE.
- classified 5d agodEtermination. Also quite confusing.
- F3nd0 5d agoThey’re only concerned with capability determination, not name determination. Some people just have no SPINE when it comes to naming things.
- RobRivera 5d agoI am happy I am not alone in this