Tatum: A Fast, Flexible Static Timing Analysis (STA) Engine for Digital Circuits
Tatum is a block-based Static Timing Analysis (STA) engine suitable for integration with Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools, which analyze, implement and optimize digital circuits. Tatum supports both setup (max-delay) and hold (min-delay) analysis, clock skew, multiple clocks and a variety of timing exceptions.
Tatum is provided as a library (libtatum
) which can be easily integrated into the host application.
Tatum operates on an abstract timing graph constructed by the host application, and can be configured to use an application defined delay calculator.
Tatum is optimized for high performance, as required by optimizing CAD tools. In particular:
If your work uses Tatum please cite the following as a general citation:
K. E. Murray and V. Betz, "Tatum: Parallel Timing Analysis for Faster Design Cycles and Improved Optimization", IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT), 2018
Bibtex:
@inproceedings{c:tatum,
author = {Murray, Kevin E. and Betz, Vaughn},
title = {Tatum: Parallel Timing Analysis for Faster Design Cycles and Improved Optimization},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT)},
year = {2018}
}
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Tatum is designed to be re-usable in a variety of appliations.
Some of the known uses are:
If your project is using Tatum please let us know!
I had need for a high performance, flexible STA engine for my research into FPGA architecture and CAD tools. I could find no suitable open source STA engines, and wrote my own.
A tatum is a unit of time used in the computational analysis of music [1], named after Jazz pianist Art Tatum.