EDN

Timing tool is both static and dynamic

Santa Cruz, Calif. – Claiming the first hybrid approach to transistor-level timing and crosstalk analysis, Nassda Corp. this week will introduce Hanex, a product that combines static and dynamic ...
Design-Reuse

Setup Margin Aware Quick Hold Fixing

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 ...
Design-Reuse

Optimizing Floorplan for STA and Timing improvement in VLSI Design Flow

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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Demise Of Static Timing Verification?

The chip industry traditionally has relied on margins to help them mitigate timing problems, but an increasing array of factors are now influencing timing. Can static timing analysis evolve to address ...
IEEE

Static Timing Analysis on Pipelined $8 \times 8$ Approximate Multiplier with Truncation

Abstract: High computational efficiency and optimal timing performance are essential for multiplication operations. This study addresses the crucial trade-off between hardware efficiency and timing ...
GitHub

Nvishal2006/Static-Timing-Analysis

This project is a software-only Static Timing Analysis (STA) prototype designed to analyze the timing behavior of digital semiconductor circuits. The tool simulates how industry EDA tools (like ...
Electronic Design

Oh, The Pain (Of Timing Closure At 28 nm)

What to do, what to do? Chip complexity continues to grow and design schedules are more aggressive, yet design teams are staying the same size or even being scaled back. Something has to give. A key ...