On Metamodeling of Electronic Circuits using Efficient Experiment Plans

Abstract

The use of metamodels has become more and more frequent when it comes to the analysis and optimization of simulations, as they are capable of predicting the behavior of a system in a much shorter time compared to normal simulations, but with comparable results. However, building the metamodel can be challenging as there are several types of DoEs and models, and most of the time the optimal combination of the two is not known. In this paper, a workflow for the metamodeling of electronic circuits was described and several types of models were built using a number of DoEs. The performance of these models was tested on four functions and a comparison between the models’ performance was obtained.

Keywords

• design of experiments
• metamodeling
• residuals
• voltage regulator