Signoff of a system on chip (SoC) or IP design has multiple aspects, but often timing closure is the most challenging. Early use of a static timing analysis (STA) tool is clearly important, and such a ...

The level of automation applied to analog design has never approached the level enjoyed by digital designers. For years designers have iterated through schematic entry, physical layout, parasitic ...

ORC Layout merges the strengths of these two approaches by allowing designers to use all the features of traditional constraint-based layout and flow layout together and specify flexible alternatives ...