Statistical circuit design with the use of a modified ellipsoidal technique

International Journal of Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Computer-Aided Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 117-128

  Abdel Malek, Hany L ^a   Hassan, Abdel Karim S O ^a   Heaba, Mohamed H ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Design centering; Ellipsoidal technique; Statistical design; Yield estimation; Yield optimization

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ELLIPSOIDAL TECHNIQUE; HYPERPLANE;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

EID: 0030779401     PISSN: 10501827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-6301(199701)7:1<117::AID-MMCE8>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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