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- From: mayo@pa.dec.com (Bob Mayo)
- Newsgroups: comp.lsi.cad
- Subject: Re: What do SPICE and MAGIC stand for ?
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 18:56:07 GMT
- Organization: DEC Western Research Lab
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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
-