Originally Posted By: Don Sicilia
 Originally Posted By: svsg
Thanks DS. The title was "probabilistic analysis of noise effects in digital circuits" \:D
I am doing my Master's in Electrical Engineering!


Congrats svsg! That's quite an accomplishment.

Your thesis sounds quite interesting. Can you provide a layman's description of what kind of analysis you did? What kind of models did you have to run?

Thanks DS, Klydon, LLC. Here is the layman explanation:

We are making faster and better Integrated Circuits or chips every year. This involves packing more and more transistors and more wires connecting them in the same area. With all the signals running very close to each other, they interfere with one another. This interference is called noise in electrical engineering. Loosely similar to your radio picking up some other channel due to interference.
In today's technology, the amount of interference is known very deterministically. But in future, it is predicted to get very difficult to quantify it exactly. Probabilistic analysis means that we assign certain odds for each possible strength of noise and predict how much of errors we will get in the circuits due to that.
My work was to do the math for this.

Hopefully I explained it well \:\)