Mike Engelhardt, LTspice, and S·P·Q·R

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Mike Engelhardt developed LTspice over 20 years at Linear Technology, which was acquired by Analog Devices in 2017. After leaving Analog Devices, Engelhardt began a new project called S·P·Q·R, aimed at creating a more efficient SPICE simulator. This new simulator, now named QSPICE, has significantly improved performance and includes extensive digital simulation capabilities, such as Verilog support. QSPICE is set to be released on May 9, 2023, and will be available for free through partnerships with semiconductor manufacturers. Users interested in participating in the beta can sign up via the provided link.
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Mike Engelhardt, the author of LTspice, has now written S·P·Q·R, for release on May 9th, 2023.
Mike Engelhardt wrote and developed LTspice at Linear Technology over a period of 20 years. As the world's most widely used SPICE, it became a most valuable asset for Linear Technology.

In March 2017, Analog Devices purchased Linear Technology for 14.8 billion dollars. Mike later left Analog Devices to follow a different path. Analog Devices continue to maintain and distribute LTspice.

Mike Engelhardt realised, the only way to move forward with SPICE, was to delete the entire LTspice source code tree and start over from scratch, to do it the way he now knows it should have been done. His new simulator, internally named S·P·Q·R, has dramatically improved performance and capability.

Mike's business model is to work with a semiconductor manufacturer or distributor, and to make the simulator available to users for free.
The new and improved simulator, based on S·P·Q·R, is due to be released on May 9th, 2023.
We will just have to wait patiently for the details and a download.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-engelhardt-a788a822/
 
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Mike Engelhardt wrote in the LTspice forum ...
https://groups.io/g/LTspice/topic/new_simulator_written_by_mike/98208355?
The simulator I've been working on for the last three years, mentioned here under its code name of S·P·Q·R, will beta imminently as QSPICE.

QSPICE(S·P·Q·R) started out as a mission to get SPICE right. I started anew with the open sources. Found bugs in Kundurt's Sparse Matrix Package that I think can only be found if starting anew with code one already knows. The timestep control is also entirely rearchitected.

But with the help of affiliations with a number of IC design and manufacturing concerns, it turned out to be more than just a more robust and faster analog SPICE program. QSPICE allows one to include massive amounts of digital. I'm humbled that the simulator turned out better than I could have expected. QSPICE responds to the fact that simulation requirements change.

If you wish to participate in the Qorvo QSPICE beta, which is coming soon, you can sign up at https://p.qorvo.com/qspice

Mike Engelhardt
Author of QSPICE

The massive increase in digital simulation includes support for Verilog.
 
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