Invention Grant
US08578310B2 Method of measuring the impact of clock skew on slack during a statistical static timing analysis
有权
在统计静态时序分析期间测量时钟偏移对松弛影响的方法
- Patent Title: Method of measuring the impact of clock skew on slack during a statistical static timing analysis
- Patent Title (中): 在统计静态时序分析期间测量时钟偏移对松弛影响的方法
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Application No.: US12857591Application Date: 2010-08-17
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Publication No.: US08578310B2Publication Date: 2013-11-05
- Inventor: Kerim Kalafala , Natesan Venkateswaran , Chandramouli Visweswariah , Vladimir Zolotov
- Applicant: Kerim Kalafala , Natesan Venkateswaran , Chandramouli Visweswariah , Vladimir Zolotov
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent H. Daniel Schnurmann
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F17/50

Abstract:
Computing accurately and effectively the impact of clock skew on statistical slack in the presence of statistically variable timing quantities that accounts for both common path credit in the common portion of the clock tree, and RSS credit in the non-common of the clock tree. The clock skew is measured on a per launch and capture path-pair basis as a function of on the post-CPPR path-specific slack (including RSS credit), total mean value of latch-to-latch delay, RSS value of random latch-to-latch delay, test guard time and test adjust. The method includes: performing an initial block-based SSTA including CPPR analysis; selecting at least one launch and capture path-pair for skew analysis; for the at least one path pair, recording post CPPR slack, total mean value of latch-to-latch delay, RSS value of latch to latch delay, test guard time and test adjust; and quantifying the impact of clock skew on statistical slack thereof.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120047477A1 Method of Measuring the Impact of Clock Skew on Slack During a Statistical Static Timing Analysis Public/Granted day:2012-02-23
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