Statistical Analysis of Electronic Circuits by Computer

The digital computer has firmly established itself as a useful tool in the solution of engineering problems. Perhaps one of the best examples of engineering computer utilization is in the area of statistical analysis of electronic circuits. This paper concerns itself with a particular digital computer program called PANE, (Performance ANalysis of Electrical Circuits) which has been sucessfully used to perform statistical analysis on a variety of electrical circuits [1]. PANE, originally written for the IBM System/360, has been modiffied somewhat to meet the ever increasing requirements of computer-aided circuit design. This means that circuit analysis programs must have the capacity to handle large and complex circuits, and yet do so, particularly in the case of statistical analysis, as economically as possible.