Functional timing analysis made fast and general

  • Authors:
  • Yi-Ting Chung;Jie-Hong Roland Jiang

  • Affiliations:
  • National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan;National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 49th Annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Functional, in contrast to structural, timing analysis is accurate, but computationally expensive in refuting false critical paths. Although satisfiability-based analysis using timed characteristic functions has been proposed, its efficiency and generality remain room for improvement. This paper shows functional timing analysis on industrial designs can be made up to several orders of magnitude faster and more generally applicable than prior methods.