Modified Latin Hypercube Sampling Monte Carlo (MLHSMC) estimation for average quality index

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-98

  Keramat, Mansour ^a,c,d   Kielbasa, Richard ^b,e  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Service des Mesures   (France)

^c SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e Ecl Sup d'Electricité ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

AVERAGE QUALITY INDEX (AQI) ESTIMATION; PARAMETRIC YIELD ESTIMATION;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032690245     PISSN: 09251030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008386501079     Document Type: Article

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