A yield enhanced layout method for maximizing yield of integrated resistor networks with a fixed total area is discussed. This approach incorporates both random variations in the sheet resistance and random variations in the contact resistances. The concept of contact/sheet resistance crossover which gives the crossover between contact-resistance dominance and sheet resistance dominance is deve...

A method was presented for calculating daughter yield deviations of bulls and average yield deviations of cows under general multiple trait models. Reliabilities associated with the yield deviations were approximated using the multiple trait effective daughter contribution method. The presented daughter yield deviation formula was verified to be correct in a simulation study with a random regre...

Supply reliability may suffer due to events such as labor strikes that disrupt capacity (random capacity) or manufacturing defects that result in yield losses (random yield). Suppliers can enhance reliability by process improvement and overproduction, but these mitigating actions are often not contractible. Moreover, the investment in mitigation depends critically on the design of the procureme...

49 Introduction Most yield loss is caused by random defects and systematic process errors. For the 130 nm design-rule generation, random defects and parametric process errors are roughly equal contributors to yield loss. At the 90 and 65 nm nodes, parametric losses are expected to dominate. Factory managers will be forc e d to make an economic trade-off between yield and density in order to ach...

University bookstores have a complex multi-product, multi-supplier supply chain with complex channel relationships such as product substitution, random yields, reverse logistics and returns, and risk sharing contracts. Supply chain efficiency is important to the bookstore due to low overall profit margin. The used book buyback activity is an example of reverse logistics with random yield with s...

The mechanical response of isotropic elastoplastic materials containing random distributions initially spherical voids is investigated computationally based on Fast Fourier Transform simulations. Numerical limit-analysis simulations at constant stress triaxiality allow to determine the yield surfaces, leading in particular determination a Representative Volume Element size for onset coalescence...

Price postponement is an effective mechanism to hedge against the adverse effect of supply random yield. However, its effectiveness and resulting production decisions have not been studied for risk-averse firms. In this paper, we investigate impact price risk aversion under yield risk. Specifically, study a monopoly firm’s pricing with two distinct schemes: (1) ex ante in which firm simultaneou...