Semiconductor Engineering

Rapid Timing Constraints Signoff With Automated Constraint Management

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 ...
EDN

Timing Diagram Editors Simplify FPGA Synthesis

SynaptiCAD has released an updated version of its timing diagram editor family that simplifies creating the Synopsys Design Constraint (SDC) files used to define the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Synopsys Timing Constraints Manager: Constraint Verification

Constraint verification refers to the verification of the contents of an SDC file to flag situations where the specified constraints are either incorrect, or incomplete, both of which, if not ...