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 ...

STA (static-timing analysis) was nearly an instant success at timing closure 15 years ago, and nothing much has changed since except for creating partitioning ...

San Mateo, Calif. – InTime Software Inc. will unveil a register-transfer-level timing tool this week intended to help IC designers develop timing-accurate RTL code before they move to synthesis, ...

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 ...

Until recently, statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) had been the darling of EDA-centric technical conferences and symposia for several years. At those conferences, SSTA was touted as "The Answer ...

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).

As semiconductor designs move to advanced process nodes, timing closure becomes significantly more challenging. At 7nm, traditional optimization techniques often fall short due to increased process ...