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OCV, AOCV, and POCV In OCV, a fixed delay factor is applied to the delay of all the cells present...

Introduction Optical Proximity Correction OPC is a resolution enhancement technique based on optical lithography. It is used in sub-wavelength lithography...

Layout Blog: Standard Cells Multiple Architectures Standard-cell library offers multiple architecture for best optimisation in performance, power, and area requirements...

IC Design & Flow Overview INTRODUCTION:Integrated circuits (ICs) have revolutionized the world as we know it. They power the devices...

Ways to fix setup violations: Setup violation occurs because of high delay in the data path or due to negative...

We hope you had a good understanding of Boolean Expressions which is available @ Boolean Expressions. In this blog, we...

We hope you had a good understanding of Number Systems which is available @ Number Systems. For building hardware, we...

We hope you had a good understanding of Logic Gates which is available @ Logic Gates. To reduce the logical complexities...

To start with VLSI skill development, we need to enhance our frontend skills. check the ASIC flow at ASICvsFPGA, which...

Before starting the discussion on what is ASIC and what is FPGA, we will first learn about the basics that...

Before starting the discussion on what is ASIC and what is FPGA, we will first learn about the basics that...

GAA is somehow similar to FinFETs except the conducting channel is surrounded by gate all around. Thus we get better...

UART stands for Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter. It is commonly used in the microcontroller to communicate with the peripheral. An 8-bit...

CMOS technology uses both NMOS and PMOS transistors, The transistors are arranged in a structure formed by two complementary networks....

In 1965, Gorden Moore in his paper predicted that how number of transistors in integrated circuit get double in every...

Silicon on insulator (SOI) refers to the use of a three layered substrate in place of conventional bulk silicon substrates....

Power is one of the most concerned factor in the lower node technologies due to sophisticated operation of a system...

During Clock tree synthesis, buffers or inverters are added in the clock nets to achieve minimum Insertion delay and Skew,...

What is STA ? Static timing analysis is one of the techniques used to verify the timing of a digital...