Signoff of a system on chip (SoC) or IP design has multiple aspects, but often timing closure is the most challenging. Early use of a static timing analysis (STA) tool is clearly important, and such a ...

Handling timing exception paths in ATPG tools while creating at-speed patterns has always been a tough and tricky task. It is well understood that at-speed testing is a requirement for modern ...

An increasingly critical area of chip design is that of clock-domain crossings (CDCs). This goes not only for ASICs and systems-on-a-chip (SoCs), but also for FPGAs as well. All the problems designers ...