SAN JOSE, Calif. — Tool startup Silicon Dimensions Inc. has released an add-on to its Chip2Nite floor planner, block design and analysis offering that will let logic designers repair physical defects ...

Since DAC 2005, there has been extensive discussion about using Statistical Static Timing Analysis (SSTA) to verify current and future generations of designs manufactured at 90 nm or below. Given the ...

Static timing analysis is a technique of computing of cell delay and interconnect delay in design (known as path delay) and comparing it against constrain (timing specific) set in SDC file. This paper ...

Statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) offers a number of advantages over traditional corner based static timing analysis. Most notably, it provides a more realistic estimation of timing relative ...

There’s an old saying that the first 90% of a task takes 90% of the schedule, and the remaining 10% takes the other 90% of the time. In chip development, design-signoff closure has become one such ...

Power consumption is a primary design consideration for today's systems-on-a-chip (SoCs). Consequently, pervasive powerreduction techniques are now an established part of the design process from ...

As the complexity of designs has scaled, the need for complete and accurate timing constraints (defined typically as Synopsys Design Constraints or SDC) has become extremely critical. High quality ...