A cross-layer fault-tolerant design method for high manufacturing yield and system reliability

Guo, JJ; Han, Qiang; Jone, Wen-Ben; Wu, Yu-Liang

doi:10.1109/dft.2013.6653585

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“…Hence, designers have to build the circuit simulator using some design software tools (e.g., HSPICE, Simulink) to evaluate the performance function ( ) and estimate yield by simulation runs [22,23]. However, this kind of simulationbased tolerance design (e.g., Monte Carlo methods) requires numerous circuit simulations and computationally expensive analysis runs [2][3][4][5][6]. In the following section, instead of using a circuit simulator, we will build a BRB system to model the performance function by running as few simulations as possible and using experts' knowledge.…”

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Circuit Tolerance Design Using Belief Rule Base

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Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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A belief rule-based (BRB) system provides a generic nonlinear modeling and inference mechanism. It is capable of modeling complex causal relationships by utilizing both quantitative information and qualitative knowledge. In this paper, a BRB system is firstly developed to model the highly nonlinear relationship between circuit component parameters and the performance of the circuit by utilizing available knowledge from circuit simulations and circuit designers. By using rule inference in the BRB system and clustering analysis, the acceptability regions of the component parameters can be separated from the value domains of the component parameters. Using the established nonlinear relationship represented by the BRB system, an optimization method is then proposed to seek the optimal feasibility region in the acceptability regions so that the volume of the tolerance region of the component parameters can be maximized. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is demonstrated through two typical numerical examples of the nonlinear performance functions with nonconvex and disconnected acceptability regions and high-dimensional input parameters and a real-world application in the parameter design of a track circuit for Chinese high-speed railway.

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“…On the other hand, circuit reliability is closely linked to its yield, namely, only those products with high yield would have high reliability. So, tolerance design and yield optimization are also the effective ways to improve circuit reliability [4].…”

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Circuit Tolerance Design Using Belief Rule Base

Liu

Chen

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Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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A cross-layer fault-tolerant design method for high manufacturing yield and system reliability

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