Extensions to Backward Propagation of Variance for Statistical Modeling

Correlating the statistics of process parameters with the statistics of electrical performance is a vital task in statistical modeling. This article describes a more general form of the backward propagation of variance (BPV) method, a numerical technique for iteratively solving the statistics of process parameters from the statistics of electrical performance within the behavior of models encapsulated in Spice.

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