When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...

A year or two ago, it looked like statistical timing analysis might be the next great new thing in IC design. Now it's less clear–and a debate at the recent International Symposium on Physical Design ...

Originally, state and timing analyzers were separate instruments. But the value of one instrument that presented both types of displays quickly became apparent, and combination state/timing analyzers ...