Stochastic testing simulator for integrated circuits and MEMS: Hierarchical and sparse techniques
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Zhang, Zheng; Yang, Xiu; Marucci, Giovanni; Maffezzoni, Paolo; Elfadel, Ibrahim Abe M.; Karniadakis, George E.; Daniel, Luca; ... Show more Show less
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Process variations are a major concern in today's chip design since they can significantly degrade chip performance. To predict such degradation, existing circuit and MEMS simulators rely on Monte Carlo algorithms, which are typically too slow. Therefore, novel fast stochastic simulators are highly desired. This paper first reviews our recently developed stochastic testing simulator that can achieve speedup factors of hundreds to thousands over Monte Carlo. Then, we develop a fast hierarchical stochastic spectral simulator to simulate a complex circuit or system consisting of several blocks. We further present a fast simulation approach based on anchored ANOVA (analysis of variance) for some design problems with many process variations. This approach can reduce the simulation cost and can identify which variation sources have strong impacts on the circuit's performance. The simulation results of some circuit and MEMS examples are reported to show the effectiveness of our simulator.
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2014-09Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of ElectronicsJournal
Proceedings of the IEEE 2014 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Zhang, Zheng, Xiu Yang, Giovanni Marucci, Paolo Maffezzoni, Ibrahim Abe M. Elfadel, George Karniadakis, and Luca Daniel. “Stochastic Testing Simulator for Integrated Circuits and MEMS: Hierarchical and Sparse Techniques.” Proceedings of the IEEE 2014 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (September 2014).
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978-1-4799-3286-3