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Critical Path Timing Delay

Meeting timing closure is the process of manipulating a design to meet its target clock rate (as set by the Marketing Department for instance). We reviewed this figure earlier in the course.

The maximum clock frequency of a synchronous clock domain is set by its critical path.


60: (C) 2008-18, DJ Greaves, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory.