• DocumentCode
    3213504
  • Title

    Temporal constraints analysis for timing verification of systems

  • Author

    Tsikhanovich, A. ; Aboulhamid, E.M. ; Bois, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    14-17 Dec. 2008
  • Firstpage
    381
  • Lastpage
    384
  • Abstract
    In this paper we propose an approach for timing verification of systems with deterministic and non-repetitive behavior. The timing specification of such systems is often formulated as a system of min-max temporal constraints. We present an algorithm handling all constraint types described in the literature and based on the linearization of min-max inequalities. Optimization techniques are proposed to improve the algorithm efficiency. We give different comparisons with the existing methods using several examples.
  • Keywords
    computational complexity; constraint handling; minimax techniques; timing; min-max temporal constraints; optimization techniques; temporal constraints analysis; timing verification; Acceleration; Algorithm design and analysis; Delay effects; Microelectronics; Optimization methods; Process design; Space exploration; Time factors; Timing; Upper bound; min-max- linear constraints; time separation of events; timing constraint graph; timing verification;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microelectronics, 2008. ICM 2008. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Sharjah
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2369-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2370-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICM.2008.5393503
  • Filename
    5393503