Prerequisite: Understanding of basic CDC
The course covers the following topics
- Synchronizers and effects of metastability
- Synchronizers – 2 depth, 3 depth and more, when do you need which
- Basics and Details of MTBF
- How to calculate MTBF for your chip, IP, Block
- Synchronizing 1-bit signals
- Passing multiple control signals
- Handshake protocols – Efficient design & synthesis techniques
- Data stability
- Pulse Width Checks
- Glitch Checks
- Multi-clock FIFO design & Verification
- Hidden assumptions in synchronizing FIFOs
- Gray Encoding and Counters
- Front End CDC Verification Flow
- CDC verification in simulation and static tools
- Backend CDC Verification flow
- Ensuring Netlist is CDC clean and glitch free
- Details of DFT impact of CDC paths in scan/shift and scan capture, tips and recommendations
- Gate-level simulation for CDC, tips and recommendations
- Physical Effects of CDC
- Physical Requirements of synchronizer
- Multiple Parallel Synchronizers – Physical Requirements, relative data and synchronizer requirements, design & verification
- CDC Handshakes – Physical and timing requirements of req and ack
- Physical effects – when is gray code no longer a gray code
- Physical effects – Constraining FIFO paths
- How to write constraints for CDC paths
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