The FP7 project nanoCOPS (the 7th Framework Programme project Nanoelectronic COupled Problems Solutions) derived new methods for simulation during development of designs of integrated products. It has covered advanced simulation techniques for electromagnetics with feedback couplings to electronic circuits, heat and stress. It was inspired by interest from semiconductor industry and by a simulation tool vendor in electronic design automation. Due to the application of higher frequencies and the continuous down-scaling process, there is a higher probability of unforeseen interactions between different domains of a Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC), which can lead to the variability of the output performance functions. Since these undesired phenomena ought to be investigated in the early phases of the integrated circuit (IC) design, in this work we formulate the robust optimization problem in terms of the expectation and the standard deviation values under the uncertainties of material parameters. Therein, the statistical information included in the multi-objective functional can be provided by a response surface model. For this purpose the Stochastic Collocation Method (SCM) combined with Polynomial Chaos Expansion (PCE) has been used. The reason for analyzing the variability of the Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) is, on the one hand, to quantify the uncertainty in an integrated Radio-Frequency Complementary Metal-Oxide Semi-Conductor (RFCMOS) transceiver design, and, on the other hand, to improve this design in a robust sense. We have illustrated our methodology for an integrated Radio-Frequency Complementary Metal-Oxide Semi-Conductor (RFCMOS) transceiver design.

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纳米电子耦合问题解决方案：不确定性量化，用于RFIC干扰问题的分析和优化

FP7项目nanoCOPS（第七框架项目“纳米电子耦合问题解决方案”）为集成产品设计开发过程中的仿真提供了新方法。它涵盖了先进的电磁仿真技术，并具有与电子电路，热量和应力的反馈耦合。它受到半导体行业和电子设计自动化中的仿真工具供应商的兴趣的启发。由于较高频率的应用和连续的按比例缩小过程，射频集成电路（RFIC）的不同域之间存在不可预见的相互作用的可能性较高，这可能导致输出性能函数的可变性。由于这些不良现象应在集成电路（IC）设计的早期阶段进行研究，在这项工作中，我们根据材料参数不确定性下的期望值和标准偏差值来制定鲁棒优化问题。其中，包含在多目标功能中的统计信息可以由响应面模型提供。为此，使用了随机配置方法（SCM）和多项式混沌扩展（PCE）。分析电磁干扰（EMI）的可变性的原因，一方面是为了量化集成的射频互补金属氧化物半导体（RFCMOS）收发器设计中的不确定性，另一方面，在稳健的意义上改进此设计。我们已经说明了用于集成射频互补金属氧化物半导体（RFCMOS）收发器设计的方法。