An efficient, fully nonlinear, variability-aware non-Monte-Carlo yield estimation procedure with applications to SRAM cells and ring oscillators

Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 754-761

  Gu, Chenjie ^a   Roychowdhury, Jaijeet ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS.; DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE; FAST COMPUTATIONS; HIGH-ACCURACY; INTEGRATED OSCILLATORS; KEY FEATURE; MONTE-CARLO; PARAMETER SPACES; PARAMETER VARIATIONS; PARAMETRIC YIELD; RING OSCILLATORS; SOUTH PACIFIC; SRAM CELLS; STATIC RAM; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; YIELD ESTIMATION;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ESTIMATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 49549119130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASPDAC.2008.4484052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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