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by Ajay Daga, CEO, FishTail Design Automation Inc.
There are two approaches to the verification of design constraints: formal verification and structural analysis. Structural analysis refers to the type of analysis performed by a static timing tool where timing paths either exist or not based on constant settings and constant propagation. Formal verification, on the other hand, establishes the condition under which a timing path exists based on the propagation requirements for the path. These path propagation requirements are then used to prove or disprove constraint properties based on a formal analysis of the design. Structural analysis is fast because it is simple. Formal verification, however, is more complete and less noisy. Formal
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