US 2014/0156233 A1Published application

Method and apparatus for electronic circuit simulation

OwnerCan Wang, Donald J. McCune +1inventors

InventorsCan Wang, Donald J. McCune, Sujit Phatak

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Abstract

A method and apparatus using a programmed processor for electronic circuit simulation in which raw data containing both independent and dependent variables is acquired. That raw data is analyzed using an analysis method which generates relationships between the independent and the dependent variables. A mathematical model is created from those relationships and this is repeated for at least two different analysis methods. The statistical error between the raw data and the computed dependent variables is then calculated and the analysis method having the smallest statistical error with sufficient sample size is selected.

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A method using a programmed processor for electronic circuit simulation for a circuit comprising the steps of:

a) acquiring a set of raw data from the circuit, said raw data containing at least one independent variable and at least one dependent variable,
b) analyzing the raw data using an analysis method which generates relationships between the raw data independent and dependent variables,
c) generating a mathematical model from said relationships, said mathematical model having independent variables and computed dependent variables which correspond to the raw data independent and dependent variables,
d) reiterating steps b) and c) for at least one different analysis method,
e) using at least a portion of the set of raw data independent variables, determining the statistical error between the computed dependent variables and the corresponding raw data dependent variables for each mathematical model, and
f) selecting the analysis method and its associated mathematical model having the smallest error.

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