Maintaining completeness, correctness and consistency of design constraints is a challenge that is pervasive in the design flow. Multiple transformations, or touch points (as illustrated in the ...

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 ...

One of the key factors in the design and development of submicron chip designs is the setting of good physical and timing constraints, no matter what type of design methodology you use. Constraints ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — In a move that it hopes will entice users to drop a mixture of point-tool solutions and go with a one-vendor environment, Cadence Design Systems Inc. has introduced a tool that ...

For example, Crown, the award-winning forklift manufacturer, leads the industry through a commitment to design innovation. It does so through an approach that focuses on the humanto-forklift ...

This paper describes an innovative methodology that makes use of XML-based IP descriptions, including constraints information, to produce automatically synthesis, STA and formal verification tool ...