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 ...
EDN

Statistical static timing analysis ensures IC performance

Static timing analysis is one of the pilings upon which the whole edifice of modern IC design has been erected. But this vital technique itself rests upon assumptions that may no longer hold water. As ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

Timing Checks Go Full Chip

Nanometer design will require new thinking in timing closure. Historically, design teams relied on static timing analysis, which depends on the abstracted behavior of individual gates to perform ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Closing The Post-Silicon Timing Analysis Gap

Accurate static timing analysis is one of the most important steps in the development of advanced node semiconductor devices. Performance numbers are included in chip and system specifications from ...
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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

White-Box Fuzzer With Static Analysis To Detect And Locate Timing Vulnerabilities In RISC-V Processors

A technical paper titled “WhisperFuzz: White-Box Fuzzing for Detecting and Locating Timing Vulnerabilities in Processors” was published by researchers at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Texas A ...
Business Wire

Timing Closure Experts Launch New Company, Announce Proven Timing Constraints Platform

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE--A new electronic design automation (EDA) company and a groundbreaking new product were launched at DAC 2012 today. Ausdia delivers a ...