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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 28, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Rajiv Vasant Joshi, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Emrah Acar, Montvale, NJ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/28 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G11C 29/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/2894 (2013.01); G06F 17/50 (2013.01); G11C 29/56008 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and a system including a processor performing a failure region exploration through uniform sampling of plurality of variables related to a circuit, the processor shifting probability distributions to explore failure probability, the processor estimating the failure probability and standard deviation by determining mean and standard deviation of failure probability of a circuit, the processor terminating sampling when a confidence interval bounds converge, and a peripheral device providing a report on the failure of the circuit when the sampling is terminated by the processor.


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