ATV: an abstract timing verifier

  • Authors:
  • David E. Wallace;Carlo H. Séquin

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Division / Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA;Computer Science Division / Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA

  • Venue:
  • DAC '88 Proceedings of the 25th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

We discuss implementation and extensions of the Abstract Timing Verifier proposed in [WaS86], in particular, several new operations and a new algorithm for analyzing critical paths that extend through transparent latches and stretch over multiple machine cycles. By placing events in different reference frames that can be translated relative to one another, the program can be used either to check a design for timing errors when the clock schedule is fixed and known, or to derive spacing constraints between clock edges when only the relative ordering of the clock edges is known. The algorithms are designed to operate on a wide variety of representations of time and delay.