Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

Manuj Verma

Igor Keller

Prashant Sethia

Ratnakar Goyal

Naresh Kumar

Pradeep Yadav

Vishnu Kumar

Amit Dhuria

Arvind Nembili Veeravalli

Umesh Gupta

Manish Bansal

Harmandeep Singh

Disclosed are methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for characterizing an electronic design with a susceptibility window. These techniques identify a set of multiple aggressors in an electronic design and determine, at a susceptibility window module stored in memory and executing in conjunction with a microprocessor of a computing node, a susceptibility window for an internal node of a victim and a timing window for the set of multiple aggressors in the electronic design. These techniques further determine a subset having at least one aggressor using at least the susceptibility window of the victim and the timing window for the set of multiple aggressors, and determine whether a glitch in the electronic design causes a violation at the internal node of the electronic design based at least in part upon the timing window and the susceptibility.

Methods, systems, and computer program product for characterizing an electronic design with a susceptibility window

Various embodiments describe performing static timing analysis (STA) on a circuit design such that delay timing calculation results generated by an STA on the circuit design can be reused by subsequent STAs on the circuit design in place of performing a set of delay timing calculations on the circuit design.

Systems and methods for reuse of delay calculation in static timing analysis

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for performing Path-Based Analysis (PBA) of an electronic circuit design. Embodiments may include receiving a command to create a spice deck of a timing path associated with the electronic circuit design. In response to receiving the command, embodiments may further include initiating PBA for the timing path and identifying one or more stages within the timing path. Embodiments may also include performing a delay calculation for each of the one or more stages and generating a stage spice deck for each of the one or more stages based upon, at least in part, information from the delay calculation, wherein the stage spice deck encapsulates all elements of the stage. Embodiments may further include connecting the stage spice deck for each of the one or more stages in series to form a complete path spice deck.

System and method for creating a spice deck for path-based analysis of an electronic circuit design using a stage-based technique

A method and system are provided for timing analysis of an electronic circuit design. A timing graph defines a plurality of timing paths through different subsections of the electronic circuit design. A timing window is defined for each of the nodes included in a timing path. At least one preliminary round of a predetermined signal integrity analysis is executed on the circuit design based on the timing windows to identify at least one pair of crosstalk-coupled victim and aggressor nodes. Each victim node's timing window is adaptively adjusted according to a predetermined timing property thereof. At least one primary round of the predetermined signal integrity analysis is executed on the electronic circuit design based in part on this adaptively adjusted timing window for each victim node to generate a delay, which is annotated to the timing graph. A predetermined static timing analysis is executed based on the delay-annotated timing graph.

Method and system for timing analysis with adaptive timing window optimization for determining signal integrity impact

Methods and systems provide setup and generation of SPICE results for a set of timing path(s) and integration of SPICE simulation with static timing analysis (STA) path-based results generation. In an embodiment, a method may select a candidate set of timing paths, perform path based analysis (PBA) on the selected paths, generate SPICE results for the selected paths, and render the PBA and SPICE results in an integrated user interface to facilitate sign off based on annotated constraints and correlation between STA results and SPICE results. Methods and systems of the present disclosure find application in, among other things, timing signoff in an electronic design and verification process.

Method and apparatus for integrating spice-based timing using sign-off path-based analysis

The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for use with an electronic design. Embodiments include identifying, using one or more processors, a plurality of sibling nets associated with the electronic design and determining if the plurality of sibling nets have a same input slew rate. If the plurality of sibling nets do not have a same input slew rate, embodiments also include determining a delay calculation (DC) for each of the plurality of sibling nets. If the plurality of sibling nets do have a same input slew rate, embodiments further include sharing a stored DC with the plurality of sibling nets.

System and method for generating and using sibling nets model for shared delay calculation across multi-instantiated blocks in the circuit design

Aspects for generating a current source model of a gate include extracting the current source model of the gate. The current source model of the gate is a function of time and output voltage of the gate. Further, the current source model of the gate is extracted based on data present in a timing library. The aspects further include storing the current source model of the gate. This is carried out by using the existing, specified timing library for current source models. In this manner, additional expenditure is not incurred for formulating another timing library.

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