HOW TO find critical path

[che_mie]

how can i find critical path in complex circuit :?:

 

[tom_hanks]

It is depend upon the circuit...

usually following signal comes in critical category..
Clock, High speed signal, small rise-time signal, A/D-D/A signals, OR-wired signal, AND-wired signal, Data and Address lines.

we cannot find critical signal...
we have to calculate the follwing paremeter to see the critical path of PCB.
strenght, fanout, noise and ground plane

pls refer SI blackmagic...

 

[RCircuit]

If you have datapath with a lot of multipliers/adders, they are critical path. Synthesis time report is always the best way to find out critical paths.

 

[jjww110]

use pt command report_bottleneck

 

[Nandy]

Once you have prime time tming violation file ready, I recommend you to use GOF to parse the file with corresponding netlist. It can have summary and the detail critical path shown on a schematic.

https://www.nandigits.com/timingeco.htm

Nandy
www.nandigits.com
Netlist Debug/ECO in GUI mode.

 

[negreponte]

critical path is the delay between input and output or the maximum delay between two register of your system.
Critical path=1/ frequency

 

[incisive]

No critical path is not between two registers in the module but it is when the timing is not met between an input nd output of a particular module. Please do confirm it. It is with respect to the clock when it violates timing(setup and hold time) and is offcourse the longest path

 

[maks10]

In Design complier there is an option for highlighting critical path, expect the same will be present in other tools also. Not sure bcos i havent worked

 

[che_mie]

still blur .... i'm doing design for adder multiplier ... so when it become complex ... i donno which of my branch is the longest path .. i need to know coz wanna use logical effort to resize it for minimum delay

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i ' m using tanner v11.. any help to find it using this tool ?

 

[funzero]

In my experence , you must first decide which path is a FALSE path , the synthesis and TA tools just do things you told to . If any false path was not specified , tools will spend much more time to optimize or analysis the false path and leave the REAL critical path aside . AFter you told tools where is the false path , tools will do very well in critical path optimization .

 

[dayanliu_ren]

thank funzero

 

[electronics_kumar]

less propagation delay or more shortest path will critical path...

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how can i find critical path in complex circuit :?:

less propagation delay or more shortest path will critical path...it can be easilly found b shortest path or dijisastra's algorithm

 

[vipulsinha]

It is the longest path between two flops. We calculate the frequency of operation by measing the delay between two flops. So the longest delay between two flops in a circuits is the critical path as it supports the Setup time for the flops

 

[appleleaf]

By using static timing analysis tools, such as prime time, you could get the critical timing path from the timing reports.

 

[mohdfaisal]

Can anybody give me a suggetion what is the text books that has been used to find the complex ceitical path?

 

[silencer3]

i think the best book for u is "Advanced asic chip synthesis using synopsys DC, PC & PT" by Himanshu Bhatnagar

If u read this, then u can definitely do what u r asking

 

[semi_jl]

I think the critical path is the longest timing path when your design have timing violations, and you can use synthesis tools to find it, for example, DC, PhyC, PT.