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An Early-Stop Adjoint Transient Sensitivity Analysis Method for Objective Functions Associated with Many Time Points
Tsinghua Science and Technology 2023, 28 (3): 566-579
Published: 13 December 2022
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Transient sensitivity analysis aims to obtain the gradients of objective functions (circuit performance) with respect to design or variation parameters in a simulator, which can be widely used in yield analysis and circuit optimization, among others. However, the traditional method has a computational complexity of O(N2) for objective functions containing circuit states at N time points. The computational complexity is too expensive for large N, especially in time-frequency transform. This paper proposes a many-time-point sensitivity method to reduce the computational complexity to O(N) in multiparameter many-time-point cases. The paper demonstrates a derivation process that improves efficiency by weighting the transfer chain and multiplexing the backpropagation process. We also proposed an early-stop method to improve efficiency further under the premise of ensuring accuracy. The algorithm enables sensitivity calculation of performances involving thousands of time points, such as signal-to-noise and distortion ratio and total harmonic distortion, with significant speed improvements.

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