What is a Setup and Hold Time Violation? Typically, a production chip consists of several million flip-flops and billions of transistors. All these flops must strictly adhere to a couple of timing ...

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 ...

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 ...

With prior knowledge of delay characterization for combinational standard cells, where the delay values are dependent on the input slew and the output load, one needs to take in account of the ...

Latches constitute an important part of present-day SoCs consisting of a number of clock domains with different functional sources. With the widespread use of latches as lockup elements, it has been ...