Designers of system on a chip (SOCs) use many design methodologies, flows, and tools to achieve timing closure. The current physical synthesis tools attack the problem of block-level timing ...

In a flat design flow, placement and routing resources are always visible and available. Designers then can perform routing optimization and avoid congestion to achieve a good-quality design ...

FPGA devices have grown to ASIC size and complexity, but traditional EDA tools and methodologies have failed to keep pace. Engineers designing high-end FPGAs are beginning to face the types of ...

No longer must SoC designers struggle with data that's organized in a file-based fashion. Increasingly, system-on-a-chip (SoC) design is a discipline that requires its practitioners to look, at least ...

The use of hierarchical DFT methods is growing as design size and complexity stresses memory requirements and design schedules. Hierarchical DFT divides the design into smaller pieces, creates test ...