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, ...
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 ...
Design-Reuse

Atrenta Introduces First Intelligent Constraint Analyzer; Helps Eliminate Chip Integration Timing Problems

SAN JOSE, CA. --Apr 14, 2003-- Atrenta® Inc, the Predictive Analysis® Company, announced that SpyGlass® Constraints, the first chip design tool that checks design constraint files, including SDC ...
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 ...