Complete STA Workshop with OpenSTA

Learn everything about STA and become a Pro in 10 days!

Next Cohort: 28th October to 6th November

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Vikas Sachdeva

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Video & Written Content
Interactive Live QA
Assignments and Labs

Features:

In this program you will get access to:

  • 10 hours of training videos access for the lifetime
  • Access to reading material with sample codes for the lifetime
  • 1.5hr Q/A sessions every day of the workshop
  • Telegram Cohort Group for the duration of the workshop to ask questions doubts
  • Assignments and labs to with instructor help
  • OpenSTA tool access on our cloud platform
  • Certificate after completion of the course

Workshop Outline

Day1: Basics of STA

Day1: Theory

  • Introduction
  • STA Definitions
  • Timing Paths
  • Timing Path Elements
  • Setup and Hold Checks
  • Slack Calculation
  • SDC Overview
  • Clocks
  • Generated Clocks
  • Boundary Constraints

Day1: Labs & Quizzes

  • OpenSTA Introduction
  • Understanding Basics of OpenSTA
  • Inputs to OpenSTA
  • Constraints Creation
  • OpenSTA runscipt
Day2: Other Timing Checks

Day2: Theory

  • Other timing checks
  • Design Rule Checks
  • Latch Timing
  • STA Text Report

Day2: Labs & Quizzes

  • Liberty files and understanding lib parsing
  • Understanding SPEF file and SPEF parsing
  • Understanding timing reports
Day3: Multiple Clocks

Day3: Theory

  • Multiple Clocks
  • Timing arcs and Timing sense
  • Cell delays and clock network
  • Setup and Hold Detailed
  • STA Text reports

Day3: Labs & Quizzes

  • Understanding full reg to reg timing analysis
  • Understanding slack computation
  • Understanding and reviewing setup check report
Day4: Crosstalk and Noise

Day4: Theory

  • Crosstalk and noise
  • Operating modes and other variations
  • Clock gating checks
  • Checks on Async pins

Day4: Labs & Quizzes

  • Understanding clock gating checks
  • Understanding async pin checks
Day5: Clock groups

Day5: Theory

  • Clock groups
  • Clock properties
  • Timing exceptions
  • Multiple modes

Day5: Labs & Quizzes

  • Revisit Slack computation
  • Understand CRPR
  • ECO insertion
Day6: Advanced STA – 1

Day6: Theory

  • STA at different design phases
  • Slew merging
  • Path timing reports
  • Clock network reports
  • Bottleneck analysis
  • Standard cell libraries
  • Library attributes and modeling
  • Prelayout and postlayout STA
  • Glitch and noise analysis
  • Inside a flop – Setup time, Hold Time, Negative setup time, Negative hold time
  • Clock Gating checks
  • Active High and Active Low
  • Clock Gating checks on Mux

Day6: Labs & Quizzes

  • Understand hold slack computation
  • Multiple mode constraints file and STA
  • Merged mode constraints and timing
Day7: Advanced STA – 2

Day7: Theory

  • Virtual clocks and usage
  • Design rule checks
  • Clock uncertainty, latency and insertion delays
  • Understanding query commands, netlist object access, get_* commands
  • Cells, Nets and other attributes
  • Timing path attributes
  • Tracing commands
  • Objects and Collections
  • Timing report sections
  • Understanding setup reports
  • Debug setup violations
  • Fix setup violations
  • Understanding hold reports
  • Debug hold reports
  • Fix hold violations
  • Understand and Debug Half cycle paths
  • Changes with setup multicycle path
  • Changes with hold multicycle path
  • PVT Corners
  • Multimode multi corner analysis
  • On chip variations – setup and hold
  • Statistical STA
  • Process and Interconnect variation
  • Hierarchical STA and models
  • Generated clock blockage, usage of clock sense
  • Sanity checks and warnings
  • No paths found
  • Large delays and transition times
  • Missing multicycle hold
  • Path not optimized
  • Useful skew
  • Graph based analysis vs Path based analysis
  • Hold timing checks, clear conceptual understanding
  • How is hold timing edge identified

Day7: Labs & Quizzes

  • Multiple clocks and adding multicycle paths
  • Half cycle paths debug
  • Debugging no paths
  • Latch timing analysis
  • Signoff checklist
Day8: STA on RISC-V Based SoC
Day9: Case Study DDR Timing Closure
Day10: Revisit Fixing setup and hold violations

Instructor Profile

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