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1. Extract pattern from file and do sum of all entries matching the pattern grep ” Sequential ” idle_power.txt | awk ‘{sum += $3} END {print sum}’ Here $3 is which column is to get sum of. Idea is to grep a certain pattern from file from each line and then process output by awk […]
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Apple Keynote takes Latex format equations. Some useful commands are below. x^2 + y^2 = z^2 If you like to have subscripts x_n^2 + y_n^2 = z_n^2 Greek letters \alpha \beta \gamma \rho \sigma \delta \epsilon Operators \times \otimes \oplus \cup \cap < > \subset \supset \subseteq \supseteq \int \oint \sum \prod \times \div \cup […]
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extract_model_split_partial_clock_gating_arc variable controls whether to split clock gating setup and hold arcs in extracted timing model (ETM). Default value of this variable is FALSE. Setting of this variable affects all formats e.g. synopsys database (.db), liberty (.lib) formats. This variable can be set to either TRUE or FALSE. FALSE: merges all clock gating checks and […]
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For small state-machines it might be easy by looking at it, however for bigger state machines and interlinked state-machines just by looking may not be easy to fix, there are EDA tools available which can identify stuck states, e.g. Mentor’s autocheck. Also by analyzing code coverage data one can review state machine coverage and identify […]
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Set alias alias ct /usr/atria/bin/cleartool Version ct -ver List vob ct lsvob List views ct lsview ct lsview view-tag Create a tag ct mktag -view -tag tag-name Set a view ct setview view-name Print current view ct pwv List history ct lshistory file-name List private files ct lsprivate List checkout files ct lsco -r -l […]
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Reconvergence – in simple terms signals are diverging from same end-point in Tx clock domain and going to multiple end-points in Rx clock domain(s). See attached fig. What can we do in this situation? First of all it is an important issue which needs to be carefully reviewed. There can be different approaches to mitigate […]
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Some common settings you may want to keep in .vimrc file set number set backspace=indent,eol,start set hlsearch set shiftwidth=3 set tabstop=3 4,996 total views, 5 views today
4,996 total views, 5 views today
Either is good. North American companies prefers Verilog/SystemVerilog and European companies prefer VHDL. Each has it own advantages and disadvantages. One need to know fundamentals of writing a good RTL code. Modern EDA tools can synthesize RTL code written in either language as long as synthesizable constructs are used. I have answered this question on […]
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This question was asked by “Vazgen Gyoletsyan” on youtube leprofesseur channel. My impression is that modern CDC tools in their reports provide detailed information that can be scripted to know various information related to clock domain crossings in the full chip design. 2,711 total views, 5 views today
2,711 total views, 5 views today
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; open my $FH, ‘<‘, $ARGV[1] or die “Could not open file: $ARGV[1] $!\n”; open my $EXT_FH, ‘>’, $ARGV[2] or die “Could not open file: $ARGV[2] $!\n”; while (my $line = <$FH>){ if ($line =~ /cabist|tap|fscan|fbscan|dangle) print $EXT_FH $line; } close $FH; close $EXT_FH; 2,627 total views, 5 views today
2,627 total views, 5 views today
1. clone from repository git clone $GIT_REPOS/ip cloned-ip where: $GIT_REPOS is path to git repository if you like to have little fancy to organize cloned versions with dates, i prefer this way: git clone $GIT_REPOS/ip ip-`date +%Y%b%d-%H%M` also you can further use alias to have this command as: alias hrclone “$GIT_REPOS/ip ip-hr-‘date +%Y%b%d-%H%M’” 2. list […]
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1. compress and archive the directory / folder tar -zcvf /home/folder.tar.gz /home/folder where: z: compress archive using gzip program c: create archive on linux v: verbose, show progress on screen f: archive file name 2. secure copy from remote server to local scp user_name@ip_address:/home/folder/file /local_dir/copied_files/ 3. secure copy from local to remote server scp /local_dir/file […]
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Below a simple perl script to make directory folder structure which may be helpful for you if you need to deal with thousands of folders. Example: folder_structure.csv (you may extract csv fromat from excel sheet). We need to make folder structure as continent folder contains regions, regions contains countries, each country contains states etc. ASIA,SOUTH […]
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“P” i.e. partial pivoting, by using that strategy we improve stability of LU, and avoid the problem of having zero element on U’s diagonal with only exception when all diagonal U are simultaneously zero. 4,529 total views, 5 views today
4,529 total views, 5 views today
In case of signal crossing from slower clock (source) to faster clock (destination), its a bit easier. Nevertheless it must fulfill minimum pulse width requirements in the receiving faster clock domain. If source clock is minimum 1.5x slower than destination clock, it is safe, one does not need special logic in source domain. In both […]
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When signal is crossing from faster clock domain (source) to slower clock domain (destination), one needs to be very careful, implementation must fulfill minimum pulse width requirements in slower clock. One may implement open loop state machine based solution in faster clock domain or some mechanism which makes sure to fulfill minimum pulse width requirement. […]
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This is probabilistic, please watch metastability lecture for more understanding. Keep in mind this is inherent problem with synchronous design, something more deeper related to device physics. 4,803 total views, 5 views today
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Different technology nodes have different requirements for sync flops. It needs to be characterized sync flops for various parameters before using them in design. Many designers simply use 2 or 3 regular d – flops for synchronization which is not a good design practice. Frequency ratio has nothing to do with the number of sync […]
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There may be violations, we need to see the origin of both clocks, both clocks need to be phase aligned, second, we need to check whether data is passing from faster clock to slower or vice versa. We need to make sure of data stability as well, we need to understand intent of design and […]
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error: unable to load shared object ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/gEcon/libs/gEcon.so’ try setting up links, e.g. ln -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5 /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5 make sure all subdirectories are there before you try to make links, 5,222 total views, 10 views today
5,222 total views, 10 views today
different other techniques may be used, e.g. jog to upper layers, jog to lower layers might not help as it will increase net resistance and hence delay. 6,200 total views, 10 views today
6,200 total views, 10 views today
n-well and p-well are needed to tie to known potential, typically placement of standard cells is done via TAP-LESS library with uniform height (certain advantages such as reduce std cell size, and so pack more cells in a given area), means those cells in same row can share well-ties (done via TAP cells), which can […]
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This lecture provides a quick overview of vi editor. 6,847 total views, 4 views today
6,847 total views, 4 views today