The complete Static Timing Analysis course — clock trees, OCV, multicycle paths, and timing closure — all with interactive in-browser waveform labs.
Every timing concept you'll meet on the job — from delay arcs to OCV to closure loops.
Flip-flop internals, launch/capture edges, slack equations, animated waveform labs with live sliders for clock period and skew.
Skew, latency, jitter, clock uncertainty, generated clocks, virtual clocks — clock-tree skew sandbox shows slack changing live.
Write correct create_clock, IO delays, transitions, and load constraints in an interactive constraint checker.
False paths, multicycle paths (setup AND hold edge shifts!), min/max, disable_timing. Interactive multicycle visualizer moves capture edge.
PVT corners, derates, CRPR/pessimism removal, OCV→AOCV→POCV progression, corner-matrix slack heatmap lab.
Reading reports, ECO loops (size/buffer/vt-swap), useful skew, signoff checklist. Closure game: fix a failing design within area budget.
Industry-sequenced from timing fundamentals to multi-corner/multi-mode signoff.
Why STA? Delay, slew, RC basics, units · RC delay explorer lab
Timing arcs, unateness, NLDM tables, CCS/ECSM concept · .lib query lab
Startpoints/endpoints, path groups, reg2reg/in2reg/reg2out · path tracing lab
FF internals, windows, slack equations, violations · waveform slider lab
Skew, latency, jitter, uncertainty, generated/virtual clocks · skew sandbox
create_clock, IO delays, completeness · interactive constraint checker
False/multicycle/min-max paths, disable arcs · multicycle visualizer
Wire models, Elmore delay, SPEF, extraction corners · Elmore RC tree lab
PVT corners, derates, OCV→AOCV→POCV, CRPR · CRPR demonstrator lab
Corners × modes, scenario explosion, dominant corners · slack heatmap
Crosstalk/SI, noise, latch time-borrowing, CDC awareness · aggressor/victim sim
ECO loops, useful skew, signoff checklist, interview prep · closure game
Module 1 is permanently free. Upgrade when you're ready for the full STA toolkit.
Join engineers who went from confused by timing reports to confidently running STA signoff — in weeks, not years.