Clock-domain crossing signoff follows the same loop on every project: describe the clocks and intent, run structural analysis over the whole design, classify each finding, fix the design or constrain it, and re-run until nothing unexplained remains. This topic walks that loop once, slowly, so the later topics can assume it.
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Name the stages of the CDC loop and what each stage consumes and produces. | |
List what setup the analysis needs and predict false-clean versus false-noise failures. | |
Read a finding, judge its severity, and name the typical fix. | |
Choose block-level versus flat analysis and name what each cannot prove. |
With setup: the clock list, their relationships, resets, and design intent. Every later stage trusts the setup, so a wrong setup makes every result suspect.