EDN

Statistical Static Timing Analysis – A Better Alternative

Traditionally static timing analysis (STA) is used to verify if a CMOS digital design can meet the target speed at various process and interconnect corners. In practice, the worst-case slow or ...
EDN

Is static timing analysis still valid?

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Static timing analysis is one of the pilings upon which the whole edifice of modern IC design has been erected. But this vital technique itself rests upon assumptions that may no ...
Embedded

Static timing analysis: bridging the gap between simulation and silicon

Static Timing Analysis (STA) not only acts as a connecting link between backend and frontend design activities, but more importantly helps in bridging the gap between simulation and silicon. STA is ...
Electronic Design

Timing Analysis Rounds The Corner To Statistics

In a perfect world, fabrication of silicon ICs would be a perfectly predictable process. Not only would every chip be absolutely identical, but there would be no variations from wafer to wafer, or lot ...
Semiconductor Engineering

What Happened To Statistical Static Timing Analysis?

About five years ago if you listened to the marketing messages in the EDA industry, you would have thought it would be impossible to produce chips without statistical static timing analysis (SSTA).
Semiconductor Engineering

White-Box Fuzzer With Static Analysis To Detect And Locate Timing Vulnerabilities In RISC-V Processors

A technical paper titled “WhisperFuzz: White-Box Fuzzing for Detecting and Locating Timing Vulnerabilities in Processors” was published by researchers at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Texas A ...
Electronic Design

Static Timing Analyzer Goes Multicore And Distributed

They said it couldn't be done, but Synopsys has imbued its PrimeTime 2009.12 static timing analyzer with the ability to run in multi-threaded and distributed multicore modes. Synopsys continues to ...
Business Wire

Cadence Announces Tempus Power Integrity Solution for Signoff Timing-Aware IR Drop Analysis

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced the Tempus ™ Power Integrity Solution, the industry’s first comprehensive static timing/signal integrity ...
Nasdaq

Cadence Announces Tempus Power Integrity Solution for Signoff Timing-Aware IR Drop Analysis

Industry’s first integrated power integrity solution combines STA with power analysis for more reliable, comprehensive signoff at 7nm and below Reduces IR drop margins to improve power and area ...