I use the word comix to describe my art form not as a misspelling of comics, which would stress the medium’s roots in the 19th-century newspaper funnies, and only in passing reference to the ...

As digital semiconductor designs continue to grow larger, designers are looking to hierarchical methodologies to help alleviate huge runtimes. This approach allows designers to select and time certain ...

Probabilistic timing analysis represents an emergent paradigm in the evaluation of real-time systems, addressing inherent uncertainties that traditional worst-case execution time (WCET) methods ...

Traditionally static timing analysis (STA) is used to verify if a CMOS digital design can meet the target speed at various process and interconnect corners. In practice, the worst-case slow or ...

In a perfect world, fabrication of silicon ICs would be a perfectly predictable process. Not only would every chip be absolutely identical, but there would be no variations from wafer to wafer, or lot ...

Accurate static timing analysis is one of the most important steps in the development of advanced node semiconductor devices. Performance numbers are included in chip and system specifications from ...

Worst-case circuit analysis (WCCA) is a cost-effective means of screening a design to verify with a high degree of confidence that potential defects and deficiencies are identified and eliminated ...