Electronic Design

Optimize For Power Before RTL Synthesis To Ease Timing Closure

Power consumption is a primary design consideration for today's systems-on-a-chip (SoCs). Consequently, pervasive powerreduction techniques are now an established part of the design process from ...
EDN

Timing Closure Using Layout Based Design Process

Chung-Kuan Cheng received a Ph.D. degree inelectrical engineering and computer sciences from University ofCalifornia, Berkeley in 1984. From 1984 to 1986 he was a senior CADengineer at Advanced Micro ...
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 ...
EDN

Design quality and its impact on design closure

The cost of SOC (system-on-chip) design continuesto skyrocket, market windows continueto shrink, and design complexity continues togrow exponentially. These challenges are onlya few of those that SOC ...
Electronic Design

Low-Power Design With Multi-VDD Flows

Nearly all designs at advanced process nodes need some sort of power-saving strategy. As more designs employ advanced low-power techniques, design teams are discovering huge implementation hurdles ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Low Power Meets Variability At 7/5nm

Power-related issues are beginning to clash with process variation at 7/5nm, making timing closure more difficult and resulting in re-spins caused by unexpected errors and poor functional yield.
Semiconductor Engineering

Golden Signoff ECO For Last-Mile Electronic Design Closure

Electronic design developers really hate iterative, resource-intensive tasks that occur late in the project schedule. Most engineers are under tremendous time to market (TTM) pressure due to ...