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Lecture18
SensitivityAnalysis

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SensitivityAnalysis
Supposeacircuitwassimulatedandtheresponse(valueofVout)wasdetermined.
Maybethecircuitdesignerwouldliketoadjusttheoutputtomeetacertain
performancetarget
Examples:Gain,Linearity,SignaltoNoiseRatio.
Itwouldbehelpfulifsomeinsightoncircuitperformanceisknown
i.e.howwouldchangingoneparameteraffecttheoutput?
Howsensitiveismyoutput toachangeinacircuitparameter

WhatisthesensitivityofVout toC1?Whataboutg1?
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SensitivityAnalysis
SensitivityAnalysisiscriticalformany
applications
Optimization
DesignCentering
YieldAnalysis
GroupDelay
.

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DefinitionofSensitivity
WhatisthesensitivityofVout toC1?

Thederivativew.r.t.theparameteristhesimplestsensitivitydefinition.
Defineabsolutesensitivity:
Units,inthiscase,V/F
Abovedefinitionisnotscalefree
Difficulttocomparevariouselements
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RelativeSensitivity
RelativeorNormalizedsensitivity(Themostwidelyuseddefinition)
Definerelativesensitivityas:

Units,inthiscase?dimensionless
Caneasilycomparedifferentelements

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RelativeSensitivity

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RelativeSensitivity

S isdifferent
fromS

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Example1
WhatisthechangeinVout ifthecapacitorC1 hasanerrortoleranceandthe
sensitivityisgivenby:

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Example2
WhatisthechangeinVout ifthecapacitorC1 hasanerrortoleranceandthe
sensitivityisgivenby:

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Sensitivities

Thequestionnowbecomes:Howdowecomputethe
sensitivity(D, S orS)forageneralcircuit?
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PerturbationApproach
GeneralMNAequations

g+g

Computethesensitivity
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PerturbationApproach
1. Thesensitivityofallvariableswithrespectto
(w.r.t.)asingleparameterisfound.
2. Need1LUand1Fwd/Bwd tofindthenominal
response(SolutionvectorX).
3. Needanadditional1LUand1Fwd/Bwd tofind
thesensitivity(SolutionvectorX+X).

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Example:Perturbation
1. CalculatetheResponse,Vout,at100frequencypoints.
Howmanysparseorderings,LUfactorizationsand
Fwd/Bwd substitutionsarerequired?

2. CalculatethesensitivityofVout w.r.t.3differentparameters
atthese100Frequencypoints.
Howmanyadditional Sparseorderings,LU
factorizationsandfwd/bwd substitutionsarerequired?

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Perturbation
Mainadvantageofperturbation:
Simpleandgeneral
DrawbacksofPerturbation:
LargeCPUcost.
Sensitivityofmultipleparametersrequires
multiplecomputations.
Issueswithroundofferrorsduetosmall
changein
Alternative Trydifferentiationtechnique.
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Differentiation
Differentiatethegeneralsystemequationswithrespecttoa
generalparameter

SameLefthandsidematrixA
DifferentRightHandSidevectors

Additional costofsensitivityis1fwd/bwd substitution

Wearestillfindingthesensitivityofallvariablesw.r.t
oneparameter.
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Example:Differentiation
1. CalculatetheResponse,Vout,at100frequencypoints.
Howmanysparseorderings,LUfactorizationsand
Fwd/Bwd substitutionsarerequired?

2. CalculatethesensitivityofVout w.r.t.3different
parametersatthese100Frequencypoints.
Howmanyadditional Sparseorderings,LU
factorizationsandfwd/bwd substitutionsarerequired?

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Example2:Differentiation
g2

ExamplefromLecture5
Usedifferentiationtodetermine
thesensitivityofallvariableswith
respecttog2

g1

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g3
g4

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