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Chapter 5 Robust Performance Tailoring with Tuning - SSL - MIT

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same requirement. The effect becomes more dramatic as the requirement is relaxed<br />

slightly. At a requirement of 280µm the tuned RPT design can tolerate up to 11%<br />

uncertainty, but the RPTT design allows ≈ 16.3%. The entire 25% uncertainty range<br />

is covered for requirements of 320µm and higher <strong>with</strong> the RPTT design. This re-<br />

quirement is nearly 13% lower (more aggressive) than that which can be met by the<br />

tuned RPT design at the same uncertainty level.<br />

In addition to extending the reachable design space, RPTT is the only method<br />

that is successful in all of the design regions. As noted in the previous chapter, Region<br />

4 is interesting because the tuned PT design is adequate, but RPT and RPT tuned<br />

are not. This result is concerning because the uncertainty is relatively low in this<br />

region and it is reasonable to assume that RPT or tuned RPT formulations are the<br />

correct approach here. However, the plot shows that, for this problem, tuning the<br />

PT design achieves a more aggressive performance requirement than tuning the RPT<br />

design at the same level of uncertainty. For example, at ∆ = 5.75% the tuned PT<br />

design can meet a requirement of 178µm, while the tuned RPT design can only meet<br />

a requirement of 218.62µm. In contrast, RPTT is able to meet the same requirement<br />

as tuned PT, and can go slightly further to 161.43µm if necessary. In fact, RPTT is<br />

the only method that is appropriate in all of the regions shown here.<br />

5.3 RPTT Simulations<br />

In this section the RPTT design space is investigated more thoroughly through a<br />

series of simulations. First the trade between tuning authority and robustness is con-<br />

sidered by varying the robustness weight, α. Then, the PT, RPT and RPTT designs<br />

are compared over a set of random hardware simulations to assess the methodology<br />

performance the entire uncertainty space.<br />

5.3.1 <strong>Tuning</strong> Authority<br />

Recall from Equation 5.1 that the RPTT objective function includes weighted robust-<br />

ness and tuning authority costs allowing a trade of relative importance between the<br />

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