Duty Cycle The basic definition of duty cycle is on_time/(on_time+ Off_time). The on time and off time totally depends upon the rise transition and fall transition. Due to transition differences, duty cycle changes and hence the calculation becomes bad. Practically,…
Useful skew is very important concept in CTS. Let’s discuss this through an example. In the above picture, we can see that the first path is having positive 15 ps of skew, second path is having negative 5 ps of…
CTS Spec File CTS spec file contains the below information: 1. Inverters or buffers to be defined which will be used to balance the clock tree. 2. CTS Exceptions (End points of clock tree). 3. Skew group information. 4. Contains…
Clock Tree Synthesis Clock – A signal with constant rise and fall with ideally equal width (50% rise and 50% fall of the signal width) helps to control data propagation through the clock elements like Flip-Flop, Latches etc. The clock…
Power We will discuss more about power analysis in ECO section while working on PDN, for now let’s take basic glimpse of the power analysis and consumption. There are basically 2 types of power consumption in VLSI design: 1. Dynamic…
Understanding the Performance (Timing) Before going to understand the performance (timing), lets understand how timing is getting checked. At placement stage we have the placement of cells information, but we don’t have connection information in between the cells so how…
What is Congestion? Types of Congestion There are basically two types of congestion: We need to avoid both the types of congestion in our design. Reasons for Congestion Fixes for Congestion
What is Placement Optimization? Depending on the stages of the design, optimization can include the following operations: – Adding buffers: If net length is too high, then we can add buffer to break the nets and get transition better which…
We know how scan chains are being inserted and how it effects the circuit. Now let’s focus on the main topic that is, how tool optimizes the scan chain. Reordering of the scan chain helps in optimizing the routing resources…
Refine Placement (Legalization) There are number of tool options which we can use for refining the placement, like you can set some micron distance so that tool will not move those cells more than specified distance. Detailed Placement