Table 1 Comparison of time consumption for RF impairment estimation

Simulation running time

41 s

42 s

for a configuration

The number of simulations

10¹⁹ runs

10¹⁹ runs

for full-factorial designs

The number of simulations

2.6×10⁵ runs

2.6×10⁵ runs

for screening designs (2 MSBs of

components are reconfigured)

The number of simulations for

384 runs

384 runs

sample configurations

Total simulation time for

1.3×10¹³ years

1.33×10¹³ years

full factorial designs

Total simulation time for

3×10³ h

3.1×10³ h

screening designs

Total simulation time for

4.37 h

4.45 h

sample configurations