Title
Optimization objectives and models of variation for statistical gate sizing
Abstract
This paper approaches statistical optimization by examining gate delay variation models and optimization objectives. Most previous work on statistical optimization has focused exclusively on the optimization algorithms without considering the effects of the variation models and objective functions. This work empirically derives a simple variation model that is then used to optimize for robustness. Optimal results from example circuits used to study the effect of the statistical objective function on parametric yield.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1057661.1057736
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI
Keywords
Field
DocType
statistical objective function,simple variation model,optimization algorithm,statistical gate sizing,gate delay variation model,variation model,optimization objective,work empirically,statistical optimization,objective function,previous work,robust optimization
Continuous optimization,Mathematical optimization,Stochastic optimization,Probabilistic-based design optimization,Computer science,Discrete optimization,Meta-optimization,Test functions for optimization,Multi-objective optimization,Random optimization
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-057-4
3
0.44
References 
Authors
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthew R. Guthaus115519.14
Natesan Venkateswaran2847.70
Vladimir Zolotov31367109.07
Dennis Sylvester45295535.53
Richard B. Brown547364.00