A New Algorithm for Statistical Circuit Design Based on Quasi-Newton Methods and Function Splitting

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1979, Pages 784-794

  Brayton, Robert K ^a   Hachtel, Gary D ^a   Director, S W ^b   Vidigal, Luis Manuel ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOLERANCE OPTIMIZATION;

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS;

EID: 0018522163     PISSN: 00984094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCS.1979.1084701     Document Type: Article

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