Global critical path: A tool for system-level timing analysis

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 783-786

  Venkataramani, Girish ^a   Budiu, Mihai ^b   Chelcea, Tiberiu ^a   Goldstein, Seth C ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Global critical path; Hardware profiling; System modeling

Indexed keywords

CLOCKED REGISTERS; GLOBAL CRITICAL PATH (GCP); RTL; SYSTEM MODELING;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

LOGIC DESIGN;

EID: 34547297254     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DAC.2007.375270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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