OpenSTA, Static Timing Analyzer

Copyright (c) 2019, Parallax Software, Inc.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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Parallax Gate Level Static Timing Analyzer

Install

See INSTALL for installation and build instructions. Alternatively, run using Docker as described in the next section

Run using Docker

1. Install Docker on Windows, Mac or Linux.
2. Navigate to the directory where you have the input files.
3. Run OpenSTA as a binary using docker run -it -v $(pwd):/data openroad/opensta
4. From the interactive terminal, use OpenSTA commands. You can read input files from /data directory inside the docker container (e.g. read_liberty /data/liberty.lib). You can use OpenSTA in non-interactive mode by passing a command file using -f flag as follows docker run -it -v $(pwd):/data openroad/opensta -f /data/cmd_file. Note that the path after -f is the path inside container, not on the guest machine.

Standard file formats

• Verilog
• Liberty
• SDC
• SDF
• RSPF/DSPF/SPEF

Exception path support

• False path
• Multicycle path
• Min/Max delay
• Exception points
• -from clock/pin/instance -through pin/net -to clock/pin/instance
• Edge specific exception points
• -rise_from/-fall_from, -rise_through/-fall_through, -rise_to/-fall_to

Clocks

• Generated
• Latency
• Source latency (insertion delay)
• Uncertainty
• Propagated/Ideal
• Gated clock checks
• Multiple frequency clocks

Delay calculation

• Integrated Dartu/Menezes/Pileggi RC effective capacitance algorithm
• External delay calculator API

Analysis

• Report timing checks -from, -through, -to, multiple paths to endpoint
• Report delay calculation
• Check timing setup

Search Engine

• Query based incremental update of delays, arrival and required times
• Simulator to propagate constants from constraints and netlist tie high/low

Timing engine library

• Network adapter uses external netlist database without duplicating any data