Covers the following topics

· The role of timing constraints

· Timing constraints overview

· Clock Definitions

· Period

· Duty Cycle

· create_clock command

· Understanding various options of create_clock command

· Virtual clocks

· Generated clocks

· Where do define generated clocks

· create_generated_clock command

· create_generated_clock command options (-source, -edges, -edge_shift, -invert, -master

· Clock Groups

· Synchronous Clocks

· Asynchronous Clocks

· Logically Exclusive Clocks

· Physically Exclusive Clocks

· set_clock_groups command

· Multiple options of set_clock_group command

· Basics of Crosstalk

· set_clock_group command and crosstalk

· Clock characteristics

· Slew & Transition

· set_clock_transition command

· Skew and Jitter

· set_clock_uncertainty command

· Intra clock uncertainty

· Inter clock uncertainty

· Latency

· Source Latency and Network latency

· set_clock_latency command

· set_clock_sense command

· ideal network

· Port delays

· set_input_delay command

· set_output_delay command

· Additional boundary constraints

· set_drive

· set_driving_cell

· set_input_transition

· set_port_fanout_number

· set_fanout_load

· set_load

Path specification methods

· -from option

· -to option

· -through option

· Multiple throughs

· When -from/-to is clock

· -through f1/CK

· -rise_from/-fall_from

· -rise_from/-fall_from clock

· False paths

· set_false_path command

· False path gotchas

· Multicycle path

· set_multicycle_path

· setup mcp cycles

· hold mcp cycles

· -start option

· -end option

· Max and Min delays

· set_max_delay command

· set_min_delay command

· set_max_delay and set_min_delay gotchas

· Disable timing commands

· Case analysis command

· Miscellaneous commands

· set_operating_conditions

· set_timing_derate

· set_units

· set_hierarchy_separator

· set_wire_load_model

· set_max_area

· set_voltage

· set_voltage_area

· Level shifter commands

· Power Target commands

· Modes and Corners

· Signoff operating modes

· PVT Corners

· Multimode multicorner analysis

· Mode merging

· Number of modes and number of signoff runs

· Modes and ECO iterations

· Details of mode merging

· Individual mode vs merged mode pros and cons

· Constraints budgeting

· Why budgeting

· What is budgeting

· Constraints promotion

· Constraints promotion example

· Constraints verification

· Timing exceptions verification

· Implementation vs STA constraints

· Constraints for pre and post-CTS STA