ASIC Verification: STA question 1

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

STA question 1

Suppose we are building the following circuit using only three components:

  • Inverter: tcd = 0.5ns, tpd = 1.0ns, tr = tf = 0.7ns
  • 2-input NAND: tcd = 0.5ns, tpd = 2.0ns, tr = tf = 1.2ns
  • 2-input NOR: tcd = 0.5ns, tpd = 2.0ns, tr = tf = 1.2ns
What is tpd (Propagation delay) for this circuit?
What is tcd (Contamination delay) for this circuit?

What is tpd of the fastest equivalent circuit built using only above 3 components?

Hint:
tpd - Max. cumulative propagation delay considering all path b/w input and output.
tcd - Min. cumulative contamination delay.


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