What do the acronyms MATLAB and SPICE stand for?
MATLAB stands for MATrix LABoratory and is now a product of Mathworks, Inc. It is at version 7. It was originally written in FORTRAN at University of New Mexico in the late seventies. SPICE stands for “Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis” written in FORTRAN at University of Berkeley, 1972. Latest and final version written in C around 1985 is SPICE3, which includes the analogue behavioural modelling capability.
