This brochure describes SPRINT, a general purpose circuit simulator developed by Piero Belforte in the late 1980s that was remarkably fast for its time. Belforte notes that SPRINT's simulation speed on workstations from that era would be around 10,000 times slower on modern personal computers, consistent with Moore's Law. Belforte also created the applications presented in the brochure using SPRINT. He later developed Digital Wave Simulator (DWS) based on SPRINT's algorithms to achieve even greater speed performance.
2. SPRINT $ SIGHTS BROCHURE by Piero Belforte 1989
Copyright Piero Belforte 1989-2012
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Author's note :
This brochure was written in 1988-89 after the development of
the general purpose circuital simulator, based on DWN
algorithms, that I called SPRINT due to its speed performance.
I also developed the applications reported in this brochure.
Comparing the specific simulation time of that time (Workstation
DEC 3100) with today PC, the speedup factor is about 10,000 ( 4
orders of magnitude), as predicted by Moore's Law.
DWS (Digital Wave Simulator), the son of Sprint, runs at that
speed and multiplies of the same factor the outstanding
performance of SPRINT, still holding his incredible robustness.
Piero Belforte April 15th 2012