Issue
160 November 2003
Timing
(Analysis) is Everything
A How-To Guide
for Timing Analysis
Philip
Nowe earned a Bachelor’s in Engineering at Carleton
University in Ottawa, Canada. He has been working in
the hardware design industry for the past 20 years.
He has experience in board design, PLD/FPGA design,
and hardware management. Currently, Philip is a digital
design consultant. You may contact him at pnowe@sympatico.ca.
RESOURCE
H.
Johnson and M. Graham, High-Speed Digital Design: A
Handbook of Black Magic, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle
River, NJ, 1993.
SOURCES
Timing
Designer
Forte Design Systems
(800) 585-4120
www.forteds.com
BLAST
Mentor
Graphics Corp. (Innoveda)
(800) 547-3000
www.innoveda.com
PrimeTime
Synopsys, Inc.
(800) 541-7737
www.synopsis.com
Timing
Diagrammer Pro and Waveformer Pro
SynaptiCAD,
Inc.
(800)
804-7073
www.synapticad.com