Overview
This workshop teaches the basic concepts of crosstalk and their effects on timing and noise. You learn how to identify and examine these crosstalk effects, as well as how to perform ‘what-if’ analysis to guide the place and route tools in the fixing of violations. You apply the PrimeTime SI flow and methodology for chip-level crosstalk analysis. The labs enable you to analyze crosstalk failures.

This class teaches best-practice methodologies, enabling you to drive the PrimeTime SI tool at its optimum performance. Hands-on labs follow each training module, allowing you to apply the skills learned in lecture.

• Run PTSI for crosstalk delay and noise analysis
• Use the key reports in the shell and GUI to identify violations due to crosstalk, and to guide timing closure
• Define clock relationships for improved timing accuracy
• Apply useful commands to catch and report incomplete inputs to PTSI
• More finely control PTSI and your fixing tool using the following techniques
• Manually control delta delay and noise calculations for specific nets
• Apply path-based analysis
• Apply what-if analysis, both automatically and manually

Audience Profile
Design or verification engineers performing block-and chip-level static timing analysis for signoff.

Prerequisites
Students are expected to have taken the PrimeTime1 workshop, or have the necessary experience to be able to load designs and constraints into PrimeTime, run PrimeTime, and interpret PrimeTime reports.

Course Outline

Day 1

• Run PrimeTime SI: Crosstalk Delay
• Completing your Inputs for PTSI
• Run PrimeTime SI: Crosstalk Noise
• Improving Accuracy
• ECO Flows

• Prime Time SI 2010.06-SP2