>>>>> "polus" == polus <polus@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Greetings Everyone! > How do the rest of you perform timing analysis. WE have XFX but > not BLAST. Currently I do it in EXCELL with a home grown > internal tool. This is cumbersome and time consuming. > There has to be a better way, particularily for pre-layout > design rather than having to wait for post layout data and using > something like BLAST. > Any suggestions? BLAST can do pre-route timing analysis. You can take a netlist from schematics, run BLAST and get a "global slack report". You can also feed it a list of component x-y locations and let it use manhattan lengths and simple driver models. -- ============================================================================= Mike Mayer mwmayer@xxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu