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setup and hold violation during tape out

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setup and hold

what should we do if we get any setup & hold violation during tape out oter than playing with freq
 

setup and hold

what do you mean during tape out ? .. do you mean if we discovered that we had a timing violation AFTER tapping out the chip ?
 

setup and hold

if u find any setup and hold violations we need to fix them
 

setup and hold

usually for setup time violation you need to reduce the delay of the path leading to the FF D-Input with respect to the Clock .. while for the Hold time, you need to increase the output delay of the Q pin ..
you first can start with what the tool tells you on how to fix timing violations .. then go back to the RTL ..
 

Re: setup and hold

hi,
basically timing violations will be checked before tapeout. if we have setup violation, you can reduce the frequency and make the chip to work with lesser frequency.
if we have hold violation, the chip will not work. hold violation is important to check during tapeout.

Thank you.
 

setup and hold

What Balan said is right....

by the way, after tape out you can't find out its an hold or setup violation easily and where exactly this is occuring!!
 

Re: setup and hold

if we get setup viol then we can make the path as multicycle path?
is it possible
 

setup and hold

multicycle path is a solution to help acheiving a higher clock frequency .. sacrifying the latency ..
 

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