An efficient method for parametric yield gradient estimation
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چکیده
A novel method to improve the yield gradient estimation in parametric yield optimization is proposed. By introducing some deterministic information into the conventional Monte Carlo method and fully utilizing the samples, it is possible to obtain yield gradient estimation with significantly smaller variance. The additional computation is almost negligible. Examples are presented to indicate the efficiency of this approach.
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