The most popular computer simulation tool is called SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis). Simply put, it's an analog electronic circuit simulator used in IC and board-level design to predict circuit behavior. I have used SPICE for some time in industry and quite frankly it took a bit of getting used to because it has a steep learning curve. Once I got comfortable with the process, I could judge when it was valuable (and believable) and I quickly added it to my engineering bag of tricks. My first SPICE tools were costly, commercial implementations of the original academic SPICE software developed at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB).
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