HOLMES: Capturing the yield-optimized design space boundaries of analog and RF integrated circuits

Proceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 256-261

  De Smedt, Bart ^a   Gielen, Georges ^a  

^a Kalholieke Universileit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER RESOURCES; DESIGN SPACES; MULTI-OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATIONS; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION MODEL; RF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; YIELD ESTIMATION;

EXHIBITIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

DESIGN;

EID: 52949101205     PISSN: 15301591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DATE.2003.1253617     Document Type: Conference Paper

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