They said it couldn't be done, but Synopsys has imbued its PrimeTime 2009.12 static timing analyzer with the ability to run in multi-threaded and distributed multicore modes. Synopsys continues to ...

A year or two ago, it looked like statistical timing analysis might be the next great new thing in IC design. Now it's less clear–and a debate at the recent International Symposium on Physical Design ...

When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...

To be useful, a timing analyzer must trigger on combinations of signals and sequences of events that you hope relate to the problem you are troubleshooting. Triggering is usually the mission of a ...