Latches constitute an important part of present-day SoCs consisting of a number of clock domains with different functional sources. With the widespread use of latches as lockup elements, it has been ...

The efficiency of modern SoC timing closure critically depends upon the effectiveness of the timing fixes and their implementation. As we scale down to deep submicron technology, the complexity of ...

Digital blocks contain combinational and sequential circuits. Sequential circuits are the storage cells with outputs that reflect the past sequence of their input values, while output of the ...

Lock-up Latches play an important role in fixing timing problems especially for hold timing closure. A lock-up latch is a transparent latch used to avoid large clock skew and mitigate the problem in ...