San Jose, Calif. – Tool startup Silicon Dimensions Inc. has released an add-on to its Chip2Nite floor planner, block design and analysis offering that will let logic designers repair physical defects ...

SoC designers place heavy emphasis on tools and techniques that achieve timing convergence between the logical and physical phases of the design. However, correct timing is only one target design ...

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 ...

The relentless march towards shrinking technology nodes has ushered in a new era of intricate semiconductor designs characterized by a proliferation of transistors. This intensifying complexity brings ...

There’s an old saying that the first 90% of a task takes 90% of the schedule, and the remaining 10% takes the other 90% of the time. In chip development, design-signoff closure has become one such ...

As the complexity of designs has scaled, the need for complete and accurate timing constraints (defined typically as Synopsys Design Constraints or SDC) has become extremely critical. High quality ...