Ashawna Hailey (October 8, 1949 – October 14, 2011) was among the creators of the HSPICE program (a commercialized version of SPICE), which many electronic design companies worldwide use to simulate the designed electronic circuits. Her company, Meta-Software, which was behind the commercialization of SPICE, produced compound annual growth rate in excess of 25–30 percent every year for 18 years, and had eventually become part of Synopsys, which calls HSPICE "the 'gold standard' for accurate circuit simulation". In 1973 she was part of the team who created Advanced Micro Devices' first microprocessor, the Am9080, by reverse-engineering Intel 8080, and in 1974, AMD's first nonvolatile memory, the 2702 2048-bit EPROM. Earlier, she, with others, built the launch sequencer for the Sprint Anti-Ballistic Missile System for Martin Marietta.
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8 October 1949 Lubbock, Texas, U.S.
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Died |
14 October 2011 (aged 62) San Jose, California, U.S.
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Zodiac | Libra |
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