Tcl Tip #2

Here’s the next in my ongoing list of tcl tips and tricks. Use foreach to break apart a list in to its components. In this example I’m working with a description of a temperature range. I’m told the description is a list that starts with the initial temperature, the middle value is the final temperature, and [...]

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Tcl Tip of the Day

In EDA tcl is the scripting language.  Tcl has its quirks but it’s extremely flexible and powerful… and often misunderstood. I’m going to try to start to semi-regularly post Tcl tips and tricks that might be helpful to EDA engineers and non-EDA engineers alike. So here goes…. Tip #1 Use {} braces to isolate a variable in [...]

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Isadore accepts TSMC OIP Customers’ Choice Award

On his last trip to San Jose, Isadore stopped by TSMC headquarters to accept the TSMC OIP Forum Customers’ Choice Award. Pictured are Tom Quan, Open Innovation Platform® Marketing, TSMC and Isadore Katz, CEO, CLK Design Automation. More details about the award can be found here.

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CLK Design Automation Awarded TSMC’s OIP Customers’ Choice Award

CLK DA’s presentation of Applications for Stage-based OCV was given the award based on customer feedback at the 2011 TSMC Open Innovation Ecosystem Forum. LITTLETON, Mass., Nov. 15, 2011 — CLK Design Automation today announced that it received a 2011 Customers’ Choice Award at TSMC’s Open Innovation Ecosystem Forum. The award was given for the presentation [...]

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CSR Selects CLK Design Automation’s AOCV FX

Global leader in wireless technology adopts CLK DA’s solution for timing derate generation Littleton, MA, October 18, 2011 – CLK Design Automation today announced that CSR plc (LSE: CSR and Nasdaq: CSRE) has adopted AOCV FX for the generation of AOCV timing derates, including design specific derates. AOCV timing derates are becoming an essential part [...]

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CLK DA Announces Design Specific Stage-based OCV and Constraint Uncertainty for TSMC Reference Flow 12

Littleton, MA, June 1 – CLK Design Automation today announced support for TSMC’s Reference Flow 12.   CLK DA extended its leadership in high accuracy timing solutions with design specific stage-based OCV (SBOCV) table generation and added support for timing constraint uncertainty table generation. Both of these capabilities can be used with any STA or optimization [...]

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CLK Design Automation announces High Accuracy Signal Integrity Timing Analysis

Signal FX enables SPICE level accuracy for Path Based SI Timing Analysis – 10,000x Faster Littleton, MA – May 26, 2011 CLK Design Automation Inc. today announced Signal FX: high accuracy signal integrity timing analysis. Signal FX provides SPICE accurate signal integrity timing analysis, 10,000 times faster than Fast SPICE or SPICE. It works with [...]

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Amber Path FX gets a new name

When we introduced Amber Path FX for critical path based timing the name, “Amber Path FX”, reflected the product’s roots – built on on the same technology platform as our Amber static timer and leveraging the FX timing model for accurate delay calculations.  A year later we have decided that Path FX stands on its [...]

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Matthew Raggett Joins CLK Design Automation as Vice President of Field Operations and Business Development

LITTLETON, MA — May 19, 2011— CLK Design Automation Inc., the leader in high accuracy timing solutions for nanometer digital IC design, today announced that Matthew Raggett has joined its executive team as Vice President Field Operations and Business Development.  Mr. Raggett will be responsible for strengthening the company’s worldwide sales and support capabilities, and [...]

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Fast AOCV Table Generation

We’ve improved our AOCV table generator a lot over the past year. Compared to this time last year our table generator is about 500 times faster. That’s a million times faster than Monte Carlo SPICE.  Where you might spend a week or a month getting tables made for a handful of cells with a commercial [...]

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