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Nanometer Design Timing Analysis Technology
Incentia Design Systems, Inc., an Electronic
Design Automation (EDA) software company that focuses
on the timing and synthesis market, today announced
the availability of a new release of its TimeCraft™
software with an advanced On-Chip-Variation (OCV) capability
for improving the accuracy and efficiency of static
timing analysis for 90 and 65nm designs.
TimeCraft's advanced OCV engine provides both level-
and location-based OCV analysis to address the effects
of on-chip statistical process variation, which can
no longer be ignored in nanometer designs. It effectively
eliminates excessive guard banding, improving timing
accuracy and reducing the effort to close timing closure.
The native engine-based implementation approach is easy
to use without limitation and delivers the best performance
in runtime and memory usage when compared to other available
solutions.
"With our new advanced OCV capability, TimeCraft
continues to establishes itself as the leader in nanometer
timing analysis and signoff," said Arthur Wei,
Vice President of Operations at Incentia. "Its
introduction continues our commitment to offer the best-of-the-class
timing tools."
Traditional OCV uses a constant derating
factor and may impose unnecessary performance penalties
on nanometer designs. These penalties include reduced
performance, larger die sizes and longer design cycles.
TimeCraft's advanced OCV uses variable derating factors
based on logic level and physical location to select
the optimal derating factor for each timing path. This
results in fewer timing violations, and allows design
teams to rapidly achieve timing closure. It also provides
an effective alternative to the difficult problem of
using statistical analysis to model process variations.
Furthermore, the OCV engine is integrated with TimeCraft
to deliver the best analysis performance in runtime
and memory usage. This improves turnaround time and
reduces design cycles.
Visit www.incentia.com
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