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 ...

Researchers from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and Chung Yuan Christian University have published “A Cross-Validated DSPN and Worst-Case Response-Time Framework for Timing Analysis ...

Pulsar timing arrays exploit the extraordinary rotational stability of millisecond pulsars as a network of galactic clocks. By precisely measuring the arrival times of radio pulses over years to ...

Today's large and complex digital integrated circuit (IC) and system-on-chip (SoC) designs often contain tens of millions of logic gates. Ensuring that these designs will function as planned and meet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How to apply CAST-32A and A(M)C20-193 guidance for heterogeneous multicore processors. Techniques for measuring timing and interference on heterogeneous multicore processors. How to employ robust ...

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 ...