20th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 6th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID'07)
Bounded Delay Timing Analysis Using Boolean Satisfiability
Bangalore, India
January 06-January 10
ISBN: 0-7695-2762-0
This paper proposes an accurate technique for computing critical delay of a circuit under a Bounded Delay Model. The Bounded Delay Model is better adapted to capture real time variations in the gate delays due to changes in operating conditions. But this jlexibility comes at a price, since the uncertainty in gate delays increases the complexity of the timing analysis problem greatly. But we have shown in this paper that using jixed delay timing analysis with worst case delay values for gates can potentially underestimate the critical delay of a circuit. We propose a SAT based methodology for timing analysis in a Bounded Delay framework which utilises the phenomenal speed and eficiency of modern SAT solvers, and report encouraging results on the ISCAS benchmark circuits.
Citation:
Suchismita Roy, P.P. Chakrabarti, Pallab Dasgupta, "Bounded Delay Timing Analysis Using Boolean Satisfiability," vlsid, pp.295-302, 20th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 6th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID'07), 2007