Embedded

Static timing analysis: bridging the gap between simulation and silicon

Static Timing Analysis (STA) not only acts as a connecting link between backend and frontend design activities, but more importantly helps in bridging the gap between simulation and silicon. STA is ...
EDN

Statistical Static Timing Analysis – A Better Alternative

Traditionally static timing analysis (STA) is used to verify if a CMOS digital design can meet the target speed at various process and interconnect corners. In practice, the worst-case slow or ...
Electronic Design

Interview: Cadence's Anirudh Devgan Talks About Parallel Timing Closure Signoff

System-on-Chip (SoC) developers are creating larger and more complex solutions. Static timing analysis and closure is key to successful solution so timing sign off tools can have a significant impact ...
Business Wire

Cadence Announces Tempus Power Integrity Solution for Signoff Timing-Aware IR Drop Analysis

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced the Tempus ™ Power Integrity Solution, the industry’s first comprehensive static timing/signal integrity ...
Electronic Design

Timing Analysis Rounds The Corner To Statistics

In a perfect world, fabrication of silicon ICs would be a perfectly predictable process. Not only would every chip be absolutely identical, but there would be no variations from wafer to wafer, or lot ...
EDN

Hierarchical timing analysis: Pros, cons, and a new approach

As digital semiconductor designs continue to grow larger, designers are looking to hierarchical methodologies to help alleviate huge runtimes. This approach allows designers to select and time certain ...
Embedded

Embedded system timing analysis basics: Part 1 – Timing is essential

Just as in comedy, timing is essential to the success of a microcomputer design. Often it is quite possible to get one system functioning by simply interconnecting the various compo­nents. But it is ...