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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Predictable Design Optimization And Closure With Adaptive Scenario Compression

Modern semiconductor chip design faces growing complexity due to numerous timing scenarios driven by varying operating conditions and physical effects. This complexity is especially pronounced in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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

Timing Closure Issues Resurface

Timing closure has resurfaced as a major challenge at 10nm and 7nm due to more features and power modes, increased process variation and other manufacturing-related issues. While timing-related ...