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 ...

Clocking issues are one of the most common reasons for costly design re-spins. This has been the driving factor in the ever-increasing demand for Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) analysis tools. Today, the ...

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Rail analysis for an ASIC system on chip (SoC) falls into two broad categories, static and dynamic (also known as transient). Static analysis is driven by power consumption for the average situation, ...

There’s a relatively new term that’s quickly gaining momentum throughout design and manufacturing these days; and with good reason. The Democratization of Simulation (DoS) isn’t a futuristic concept ...