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 ...

Business can often be described as a series of projects, and projects are often dictated by a set of constraints. While projects vary, constraints on them typically fall into one of three categories.

Electrical characteristics of design implementations are becoming more relevant as feature sizes decrease. You must clearly state product requirements and correctly translate them into a format that ...

As the complexity of designs has scaled, the need to provide accurate physical constraints like timing, area, power and port locations has become very important. Of these, timing constraints are the ...

Successful leaders are not defined by the resources they control, but by how clearly they see and work within their ...

For better ICs and faster time-to-market, start with a common constraint and hierarchy strategy. Today, the success or failure of an advanced IC design depends largely on how smoothly it traverses the ...