EDN

Global approach to timing margins and constraint definition for SoC design, Part 2

Margins related to OCV have to be added to the above-described inducing jitter phenomena. It is important to remember that the first phenomena—margins related to OCV– are always impacting both hold ...
EDN

‘Best practices’ improve hierarchical design constraints

One of the key factors in the design and development of submicron chip designs is the setting of good physical and timing constraints, no matter what type of design methodology you use. Constraints ...
Electronic Design

Using Timing Constraints For Generating At-Speed Test Patterns

Handling timing exception paths in ATPG tools while creating at-speed patterns has always been a tough and tricky task. It is well understood that at-speed testing is a requirement for modern ...
Yahoo Finance

Siemens to bring advanced timing constraint capabilities to EDA design flow with Excellicon acquisition

Acquisition enables System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designers to accelerate design closure and enhance functional and structural constraint correctness with industry-proven timing constraints management PLANO, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Experts At The Table: Timing Constraints

Low-Power Engineering sat down to discuss timing constraints with ARM Fellow David Flynn; Robert Hoogenstryd, director of marketing for design analysis and signoff at Synopsys; Michael Carrell, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

What Do Timing Constraints Have To Do With Clock Domain Crossing?

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 ...
Design-Reuse

Verification and Generation of Constraints

As today’s designs become more complex, so too do their constraints. Design functionality typically gets a lot of attention – through code review, functional verification, etc. However, the ...
Electronics Weekly

FPGA design improved by correct setting of clocks and timing constraints

In FPGA design, where timing is everything, there are tips and tricks to help designers set up clocks, correctly set timing constraints and then tune parameters of the FPGA, write Angela Sutton and ...
Electronics Weekly

In FPGA design timing is everything, says Synopsys

When your FPGA design fails to meet timing performance objectives, the cause may not be obvious. The solution lies not only in the FPGA implementation tools’ talent in optimising the design to meet ...
Design-Reuse

Synthesis Methodology & Netlist Qualification

The main objective of this article is to explain synthesis flow and post-synthesis netlist quality checks. In ASIC flow, synthesis is the part of the front-end design, while the back-end design takes ...
Dataquest

Siemens to bring advanced timing constraint capabilities to EDA design flow with Excellicon acquisition

This will bring Excellicon’s best-in-class software for the development, verification, and management of timing constraints to Siemens’ EDA portfolio of software for IC design. The planned acquisition ...