Static Timing Analysis: VLSI

Learn the timing parameters and design a circuit that will meet the timing requirements.

Language: english

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Instructor(s): Sujithkumar MA

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What you’ll learn

Perform Static Timing Analysis on a digital circuit
Figuring out the maximum operating frequency of any sequential circuit
Identify the timing violations and mitigate them
Identify all the timing paths in a circuit

Requirements

No, But a basic knowledge in Digital Electronics will help!

Description

Want to become a chip design engineer? Then, STA is mandatory for you!

Welcome to my course on ‘Static Timing Analysis on VLSI Circuits’

This course will help you to design a digital circuit meeting all the timing constraints given.

The contents that we will be discussing in this course are

1. Types of digital circuits – Combinational, Sequential

2. Working of Memory Elements – Latches, Flipflops

3. Edge Triggering

4. Different delays in a combinational circuit – Propagation delay, Contamination delay

5. Critical path of a combinational circuit

6. Timing specifications of a sequential circuit

7. Launch Flipflop, Capture Flipflop

8. Setup time analysis & violation

9. Hold time analysis & violation

10. Different timing paths in a sequential circuit

11. Finding out the maximum delay (critical path delay)

12. Minimum clock period, Maximum operating frequency of the circuit

13. Data Required Time, Data Arrival Time

14. Slacks – Setup Slack, Hold Slack.

15. The concept of clock skew and its equation

16. Effect of clock skew on the maximum frequency of the circuit.

After understanding the concepts and the equations, Some example problems and interview questions will be solved in the last section.

A clock signal is used by sequential circuits to regulate the flow of system data. The maximum clock frequency that can be employed in the circuit can be calculated from a set of combinational and sequential components and the timing parameters that go with them. In this study, each flip-flop to flip-flop path in the circuit is looked at. Both the data setup time at the destination flip-flop and the propagation delays throughout the pathways are examined. Each flip-flop to flip-flop path can be checked to see if flip-flop hold times are satisfied after figuring out the maximum clock frequency. The circuit will function as intended if the contamination delays along each path are more than or equal to the target flip flop hold time.

Who this course is for

Beginner VLSI Design Aspirants
Anyone who wants to design ASIC

Course content

Review on the Fundamentals
- Introduction to the course
- Types of Digital Circuits – Combinational, Sequential
- 2. Working of Latches
- 3. Working of Flipflops
Static Timing Analysis on Combinational Circuits
- 4. Delays in Combinational Circuits
- 5 . Example – Critical Path in a Combinational Circuit
- 6. Example 2 – Critical Path in a Combinational Circuit
Static Timing Analysis on a sequential circuit
- 7. Timing specifications of a sequential circuit
- 8. Setup time violation
- 9. Hold time violation
- 10. Maximum frequency of a circuit
- 11. Setup time Analysis
- 12. Clock skew – Concept and the equation
- 13. Setup time Analysis on circuits with clock skews
- 14. Hold time Analysis
Problems and Interview Questions
- 15. Example 2 – Maximum Frequency, Setup time analysis, Hold time analysis
- 16. Example 3 – Timing specifications given in ranges
- 17. Breaking down a complex circuit and performing STA