Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • ATE
    Automatic Test Equipment
  • CAE
    Computer-Aided Engineering
  • CCCS
    Current Controlled Current Source.
  • CCVS
    Current Controlled Voltage Source.
  • FET
    Field Effect Transistor
  • IDD
    Interface Design Document
  • IFS
    Refers to the Interface Specification File. The abbreviation reflects the file name of the Interface Specification File: ifspec.ifs.
  • MNA
    Modified Nodal Analysis
  • MOSFET
    Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
  • PWL
    Piece-Wise Linear
  • RAM
    Random Access Memory
  • ROM
    Read Only Memory
  • SDD
    Software Design Document
  • SI
    Simulator Interface
  • SPICE
    Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis. This program was developed at the University of California at Berkeley and is the origin of ngspice.
  • SPICE3
    Version 3 of SPICE.
  • SRS
    Software Requirements Specification
  • SUM
    Software User's Manual
  • UCB
    University of California at Berkeley
  • UDN
    User-Defined Node(s)
  • VCCS
    Voltage Controlled Current Source.
  • VCVS
    Voltage Controlled Voltage Source
  • XSPICE
    Extended SPICE; option to ngspice, integrating predefined or user defined code models for event-driven mixed-signal simulation.