Designers look to 90 nm, and beyond
The pursuit of performance once involved identifying paths with negative timing slack and crafting them. But as designers move to 90-nanometer and finer processes, as some leading-edge design teams will do this year, the scope of the problem widens. Performance is no longer just about static timing. As the articles in this section reflect, it involves just about every aspect of the design process, and demands the cooperation of both design teams and tool vendors.