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Talking About Electronic Design with Mike Engelhardt

June 3, 2025

Mike Engelhardt is renowned for developing the SPICE-based analog electronic circuit simulator computer software LTspice and QSPICE.

Alix Paultre

Mike Engelhardt

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Mike Engelhardt is an American computer programmer, author, and entrepreneur who is renowned for developing the SPICE-based analog electronic circuit simulator computer software.

Known for his wide-brimmed hat and bowtie, Mike is the innovative mind behind Qorvo’s simulator, QSPICE. He’s not just known for his technical acumen, but also for his often unconventional approach to engineering. In this podcast, we get to sit down with him and talk about electronics and engineering from his point of view.

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About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.

About the Author

Mike Engelhardt | QSPICE Author, Qorvo

Mike Engelhardt has been writing physical simulators since 1975. His first simulators were written for high energy physics labs and instrumentation companies working in charged-particle optics and oil exploration. Mike's educational background is physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; University of Mainz, Germany; and University of California, Berkeley. He holds patents in simulation and switch-mode power supply design. Mike Engelhardt is the author of Qorvo’s new simulation software, QSPICE, and, previously, of LTspice. Mike has delivered seminars on SPICE simulation in 48 countries.