Yield optimization for radio frequency receiver at system level

This paper is devoted to the yield optimization of the radio-frequency (RF) front-end of wireless receiver. The yield together with the circuit performances are often sensitive to the choice of parameters of its components and blocks, and can be improved at circuit design level. However, it is better evaluated when considering the whole receiver at system level. For this purpose, we first use a design of experiment (DoE) technique to generate meta-models of the building blocks. Then, we apply a version of the stochastic gradient method to find a good approximation of the optimum for the circuit yield.