摘要:
A method for designing a system includes determining minimum and maximum delay budgets for connections. Routing resources are selected for connections in response to the minimum and maximum delay budgets.
摘要:
Logic designs are optimized to satisfy long-path and short-path timing constraints for multiple process/operating condition corners. A path-based compilation phase determines an implementation for logic design paths, in part, by monitoring a set of paths that are important from a timing perspective and evaluating the timing performance of the set of monitored paths at one or more timing corners. A timing-analysis-based compilation phase determines transformations for converting sets of timing values from one timing corner to another timing corner. The compilation phase transforms timing delay values from one timing corner to another to facilitate analysis of timing performance at different corners. Timing slack values produced by analysis are transformed to map them from one timing corner to another. The transformed timing slack values from multiple corners are amalgamated. The amalgamated timing slack values are used by a compilation phase (that potentially only understands a single corner) to optimize a logic design for multiple corners.
摘要:
Clock switch-over circuits and methods provide clock signals to clock routing networks. According to one embodiment, a multiplexer selects between a first clock signal and a second clock signal in response to a switch select signal received from a control circuit. A storage circuit stores an enable signal in response to an output clock signal of the multiplexer. A logic circuit transmits the output clock signal of the multiplexer to a clock routing network in response to the enable signal from the storage circuit. At least one signal is transmitted from the clock switch-over circuit to the control circuit.
摘要:
Circuits, methods, and apparatus for delaying signals in a power and area efficient manner are provided. A gating element within a stage of a programmable delay element suppresses an operation of other stages of the delay element. A programmable delay has components with differing delays that may be combined to give flexibility in choices for delay increments while minimizing the area of the delay element. A delay element is shared between different signal paths, for example, to reduce the number of delay elements or to allow utilizing unused delay elements of other signal paths.
摘要:
A system for parallelizing software in computer-aided design (CAD) software for circuit design includes a computer. The computer is configured to form or optimize a plurality of clusters in parallel. Each cluster in the plurality of clusters includes a set of nodes in a netlist in a design. The computer is configured to determine placements for blocks in a netlist in parallel, based on iterative improvement, partitioning, or analytic techniques.
摘要:
A method for designing a system including optimizing path-level skew in the system and analyzing path-level skew in the system. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
摘要:
A programmable logic device (PLD) includes a signal distribution network, separate from the high-quality, low-skew clock distribution networks of the PLD, for distributing, from peripheral input/output regions of the PLD, clock-type signals. The signal distribution network includes a central periphery clock bus, located near a group of peripheral input/output regions, for conducting clock-type signals from those regions onto a clock spine of the PLD. The clock spine may be dedicated to the signal distribution network, or may be part of a high-quality, low-skew clock distribution network covering all or part of the PLD. The signal distribution network allows greater skew than such high-quality, low-skew clock distribution networks, but nevertheless is of higher quality, and allows less skew, than the general programmable interconnect and routing resources.
摘要:
Circuits, methods, and apparatus for delaying signals in a power and area efficient manner are provided. A gating element within a stage of a programmable delay element suppresses an operation of other stages of the delay element. A programmable delay has components with differing delays that may be combined to give flexibility in choices for delay increments while minimizing the area of the delay element. A delay element is shared between different signal paths, for example, to reduce the number of delay elements or to allow utilizing unused delay elements of other signal paths.
摘要:
Circuitry for providing an input data signal to other circuitry on an integrated circuit includes a course delay chain and a fine delay chain. These two delay chains are cascadable, if desired, to provide a very wide range of possible amounts of delay which can be finely graded by use of the fine delay chain.
摘要:
Systems and techniques are described for optimizing placement and routing by providing global information during early stages of a computer aided design (CAD) flow to produce better place and route solutions. Moreover, the systems and techniques described herein use natural connectivity information inherently provided in a design hierarchy.