Sanity checks before going to start Physical Design step Physical design engineers must perform sanity tests on VLSI designs to…

ESD Clamp Circuit in VLSI Clamps are known as static ESD clamps. A diode, MOSFET, and SCR-based clamps are known…

Addressing Clock Tree Synthesis Challenges In order to equalize the clock delay to all clock inputs, the Clock Tree Synthesis…

If a design has both IR drops and congestion, there are a few potential solutions to fix the issue, Spread…

Difference between statistical and conventional STA Statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) and conventional static timing analysis (STA) are both techniques…

What is Metastability in VLSI and How to Avoid it? A race condition in the circuit’s input signals is typically…

Impact of Metastability on Digital Circuits The setup and hold time violation in a flip-flop causes the metastable or quasi-stable…

 What is CRPR in VLSI? The name “CRPR,” or clock reconvergence pessimism removal, is used in static timing analysis. Based…

Clock mesh and Clock tree-type distribution system Clock mesh technology provides uniform, low-skew clock distribution and offers better tolerance to…

What are the i/p’s and o/p’s of power planning? Power planning means making sure that all of the design’s macros,…