The quality of the netlist generated during RTL synthesis has an enormous impact on the rest of the physical design flow. For teams designing large SoCs at advanced nodes, it is more important than ...

Design reuse and IP-based design are established design practices enabling fast integration of large-scale, high-complexity systems. But while silicon potential keeps improving through node shrinks, ...

As today’s designs become more complex, so too do their constraints. Design functionality typically gets a lot of attention – through code review, functional verification, etc. However, the ...

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 ...

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 ...