Title :
On the center-of-gravity method of yield maximization
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Stevens Inst. of Technol., Hoboken, NJ, USA
Abstract :
The center-of-gravity method of yield maximization has previously been shown numerically to be effective in diverse situations. We show that for jointly Gaussian parameters that are either uncorrelated or linearly independent the exact CG method converges
Keywords :
Gaussian processes; Monte Carlo methods; circuit optimisation; integrated circuit yield; CG method; Monte Carlo optimisation; center-of-gravity method; circuit optimisation; jointly Gaussian parameters; linearly independent parameters; yield maximization; Character generation; Circuit optimization; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Convergence; Covariance matrix; Monte Carlo methods; Probability density function; System performance; Yield estimation;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1997. Proceedings of the 40th Midwest Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Sacramento, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3694-1
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.1997.666118
