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    Jiahe Shi
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    Fudan University
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    To efficiently estimate parametric yields over multiple process, voltage, temperature corners for binary output circuits, we propose a novel Bayesian Inference method based on Bernoulli distribution with conjugate prior in this paper. The key idea is to adopt a product of Beta distributions as the conjugate prior for the yields and encode circuit performance correlations among different corners into this prior. Next, the hyper-parameters are optimized by using multi-start Quasi-Newton method, and the yields over different corners are estimated via maximum-a-posteriori. Two circuit examples demonstrate that the proposed method achieves up to 3.0x cost reduction over the state-of-the-art methods without surrendering any accuracy.

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