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 ...

You just put your new crate engine together and your adrenaline is pumping. Pump the throttle, turn the key, and… the thing runs like a total dog. It idles fine, but as soon as you step on the ...

Static Timing Analysis (STA) is a key factor to validate while manufacturing a chip, where each design must go for setup and hold validation. In today’s era, technology nodes are shrinking and ...

What is a Setup and Hold Time Violation? Typically, a production chip consists of several million flip-flops and billions of transistors. All these flops must strictly adhere to a couple of timing ...

Latches constitute an important part of present-day SoCs consisting of a number of clock domains with different functional sources. With the widespread use of latches as lockup elements, it has been ...

With prior knowledge of delay characterization for combinational standard cells, where the delay values are dependent on the input slew and the output load, one needs to take in account of the ...

Variation modeling has evolved over the past several years from a single derating factor that represents on-chip variation (OCV), to Liberty Variation Format (LVF), today’s leading standard format ...