While chip design, functional verification, timing verification and manufacturing have become highly automated, the writing and verification of design constraints has been largely a tedious, manual ...

Intelligent Constraint Development and Implementation. During the development process, to create the constraints needed to achieve a design with sound signal quality in addition to completing any ...

There has been a fair bit of buzz around design constraint automation tools of late. EDA players—large and small—have announced products or intent in this space and 2006 will see an acceleration in ...

Simply put, by systematically limiting the design scope before we start, constraints make it more likely that we will produce a successful layout for a given design. In other words, constraints guide ...

Acquisition enables System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designers to accelerate design closure and enhance functional and structural constraint correctness with industry-proven timing constraints management ...

The subsystem design constraints include input/output timing requirements, DRC requirements, external drive/load characteristics, clock definitions, and timing exceptions such as false and multi-cycle ...

Managing the impact of constraints ubiquity can be a significant challenge for design teams. The ability to effectively manage the constraints creation, validation and verification process at each ...

Social and economic analyses are complementary to each other and provide critical inputs to project design and appraisal process. Economic analysis helps determine, ex-ante, whether a project ...

Improved constraints mean higher quality silicon, especially at finer geometries like 90nm and below (Figure 1). 1. Today's Constraint Management tools can validate and generate constraints for all ...