Static Timing Analysis (STA)

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Topics
-Timing Analysis
-Difference between Static Timing Analysis (STA) and Dynamic Timing Analysis(DTA).
Static Timing Analysis Definition, Main steps of STA.
-STA Inputs and Outputs
-Timing Report
-Clock Storage Elements (transparent latch and Flipflop)
- Delays (Intrinsic, Propagation, Contamination, net)
-Timing ARC
-Timing Unate
-Clock definitions in STA (Synchronous clock, Asynchronous clock, mutually exclusive clock, generated clock, virtual clock)
-Timing Path Groups (In2Reg, Reg2Reg, Reg2out, In2Out)
-Clock latency, Insertion Delay, Clock Uncertainty, Clock skew, Clock Jitter, Glitch, pulse width, duty cycle, transistion/slew.
-Asynchronous path, Critical path, shortest path, Clock gating path, launch path, capture path, Arrival Time, Required Time.
- CRPR(Common path pessimism removal)
-Slack, setup time, hold time, Setup and hold time violations.
-Recovery time, Removal time, recovery and removal violations.
-Single cycle path, Multicycle path, False path.
-Clock crossing domain
-Clock domain synchronization scheme (Pulse width check, Data stability check)
-Bottleneck analysis
-Multi VT Cells (HVT,LVT,SVT/RVT)
-Time Borrowing/Stealing, Time borrowing scenarios,
- Path based STA and Graph based STA.
-Difference between PBA and GBA and Example.