DocumentCode
2178936
Title
On the center-of-gravity method of yield maximization
Author
Poudyal, Vijaya
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Stevens Inst. of Technol., Hoboken, NJ, USA
Volume
1
fYear
1997
fDate
3-6 Aug 1997
Firstpage
398
Abstract
The center-of-gravity method of yield maximization has previously been shown numerically to be effective in diverse situations. We show that for jointly Gaussian parameters that are either uncorrelated or linearly independent the exact CG method converges
Keywords
Gaussian processes; Monte Carlo methods; circuit optimisation; integrated circuit yield; CG method; Monte Carlo optimisation; center-of-gravity method; circuit optimisation; jointly Gaussian parameters; linearly independent parameters; yield maximization; Character generation; Circuit optimization; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Convergence; Covariance matrix; Monte Carlo methods; Probability density function; System performance; Yield estimation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Circuits and Systems, 1997. Proceedings of the 40th Midwest Symposium on
Conference_Location
Sacramento, CA
Print_ISBN
0-7803-3694-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MWSCAS.1997.666118
Filename
666118
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