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Course contents

  • How to Use This Course
  • Reading Path
  • STA Glossary
  • STA Metrics Reference
  • STA Mastery Cheatsheet
  • Timing Paths and Checks16
  • Constraints & SDC Fundamentals20
  • Delay Graph & Path Analysis16
  • Beyond Setup and Hold16
  • Multi-Corner Multi-Mode Signoff16
  • OCV, AOCV, POCV and Variation16
  • Crosstalk and Noise16
    • Delta Delay Mechanism
    • Noise and Glitch Analysis
    • SI ECO Fix Order
      • Fix Order
      • Spacing and Shielding
      • Victim and Aggressor Changes
      • Verifying SI Fixes
    • SI Signoff Reports
  • ECO and Closure16
  • STA Debug Playbook16
  • STA Interview Prep26
  • Capstone Timing Signoff Lab4
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‹Crosstalk and Noise
  1. Topics
  2. Static Timing Analysis
  3. Crosstalk and Noise
  4. SI ECO Fix Order

Part 7 · Crosstalk and Noise · All levels

SI ECO Fix Order

How to fix crosstalk violations: in what order to try the fixes, what spacing and shielding really buy, what changing the victim or the aggressor does, and how to confirm a fix worked.

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Crosstalk fixes are changes to wires and drivers, each with a cost and a side effect. A cost-effective set of fixes is the right answer, not a guaranteed minimal one: greedy ordering by benefit per cost can overshoot, and every fix has to be verified because it changes windows, delays and other nets' coupling. This topic orders the fixes by benefit per cost, shows what spacing and shielding deliver, compares changing the victim with changing the aggressor, and gives a verification routine.

Lesson

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Fix Order

Rank fixes by benefit per unit cost.

Spacing and Shielding

Estimate what each fix does to delay and delta.

Victim and Aggressor Changes

Compare changing the victim with changing the aggressor.

Verifying SI Fixes

Detect regressions after a fix.

Check yourself Why must every SI fix be verified with a new analysis?

A fix changes delays and arrival windows, and therefore which aggressors overlap which victims; a fix can help one net and hurt another.

Interview

Be ready to name at least four SI fixes and one side effect for each.

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See also

  • Delta Delay Mechanism
  • Noise and Glitch Analysis
  • SI Signoff Reports