Worst case efficiency of Latin hypercube sampling Monte Carlo (LHSMC) yield estimator of electrical circuits

Author

Keramat, Mansour ; Kielbasa, Richard

Author_Institution

Service des Mesures, Ecole Superieure d´´Electr., Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Volume

3

fYear

1997

Firstpage

1660

Abstract

The worst case efficiency of Latin Hypercube Sampling Monte Carlo (LHSMC) estimators for Parametric Yield of integrated and discrete circuits is presented. The efficiency and usefulness of LHSMC in MOS digital circuits have been shown mathematically in our earlier work. Here, we give a theoretical lower bound efficiency of LHSMC over Primitive Monte Carlo (PMC), and show that LHSMC can generally be used instead of PMC in order to have an efficient estimation of parametric yield. Finally, good agreement is achieved between theory and simulation results

Keywords

MOS digital integrated circuits; Monte Carlo methods; circuit analysis computing; digital simulation; hypercube networks; integrated circuit yield; LHSMC; Latin hypercube sampling Monte Carlo; MOS digital circuits; circuit simulation results; lower bound efficiency; parametric yield; worst case efficiency; yield estimator; Circuit simulation; Computer aided software engineering; Digital circuits; Hypercubes; Integrated circuit modeling; Integrated circuit yield; Monte Carlo methods; Probability distribution; Sampling methods; Yield estimation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1997. ISCAS '97., Proceedings of 1997 IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3583-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1997.621452

Filename

621452