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Figure 1: Deploying RTA causes minimal disruption to existing flows A new technique called register transfer level (RTL) Timing Analysis (RTA) can provide accurate timing analysis of designs as early ...

Once written, the UPF file is applied at every stage of the design cycle — starting with the RTL, then the gate-level, and finally during place and route. A major problem is that the UPF needs to be ...

In a recent attempt to speed up RTL (transistor) level simulations like these, Mahyar Emami and colleagues propose a custom processor architecture – called Manticore – that can be used to run ...

“This has given rise to a robust set of tools and methodologies around the power efficiency of RTL,” said Rob Knoth, product management director at Cadence. “Power efficiency analysis at the C-code ...

To improve energy efficiency, we made considerable efforts to enhance RTL-level optimization. Now, by leveraging Joules RTL Design Studio from Cadence, we can achieve efficient and accurate power ...

Thanks to a fast, built-in synthesis engine, Atrenta's SpyGlass 3.0 predictive-analysis tool detects very complex structural problems in register transfer level (RTL) code that would otherwise ...

To avoid “specification to RTL hand-off†problems, High Level Synthesis technology (HLS) [1] aimed at automating generation of synthesizable RTL from un-timed ANSI C algorithm has been introduced ...

Even worse, at the gate-level of logic in advanced node devices (28 nm or lower), RTL CDC tools cannot easily detect glitches introduced by synthesis or other back-end tools on CDC paths that were ...