Laurence W. Nagel (born: 1945) is an American electrical engineer and industry consultant. He is best known for being the inventor of the SPICE circuit simulator.
Biography
He was born in 1945.
He is married to Jean Nagel and resides in California.
Education
He attended the University of California, Berkeley where he completed his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in EECS in 1969, 1970, and 1975, respectively.
His PhD dissertation involved developing the SPICE program. His doctoral dissertation supervisor was Donald Pederson. His major collaborator was Ronald A. Rohrer, another American computer scientist.
Career In 1998, he founded his own company called Omega Enterprises Consulting. He is currently working as an independent consultant in San Francisco. He provides expert advice to his clients and customers in the fields of Analog circuit design, Computer-aided design, circuit simulation, semiconductor device modeling.
Awards and Honours
SPICE was recognized as an IEEE Milestone in 2011.
He has received the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits.
See also
University of California, Berkeley
Electronic circuit simulation
References
External links
https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1975/9602.html https://computerhistory.org/profile/larry-nagel/ https://www.omega-enterprises.net/Nagel%20Resume%2020191108.pdf https://ethw.org/Laurence_Nagel https://resourcecenter.cas.ieee.org/tags/laurence-w-nagel https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laurence-Nagel