Static Timing Model Extraction for Combinational Circuits
Abstract
For large circuits, static timing analysis (STA) needs to be performed in a hierarchical manner to achieve higher performance in arrival time propagation. In hierarchical STA, efficient and accurate timing models of sub-modules need to be created. We propose a timing model extraction method that significantly reduces the size of timing models without losing any accuracy by removing redundant timing information. Circuit components which do not contribute to the delay of any input to output pair are removed. The proposed method is deterministic. Compared to the original models, the numbers of edges and vertices of the resulting timing models are reduced by 84% and 85% on average, respectively, which are significantly more than the results achieved by other methods.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1705.02610,
title = {Static Timing Model Extraction for Combinational Circuits},
author = {Bing Li and Christoph Knoth and Walter Schneider and Manuel Schmidt and Ulf Schlichtmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.02610},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS), 2008