TimeVision Predictive Analysis helps transform the answer to “will this design meet timing?” from“maybe, it depends…” to either “yes” or “no, and here’s why”.

Most often, true timing problems are drowned out in a cacophony of more significant, but fixable, problems during various stages of implementation. Finding the roadblocks to closure often happens later in the cycle, with uncertain impact on schedule and design verification. Predictive Analysis determines how all current timing problems in the design could be fixed, and bins them into categories to aid in debugging.

Critically, this enables synthesis and RTL owners to view timing issues with all the “fixable” implementation issues accounted for (a common issue early in the cycle), giving a highly concise picture of what needs to be solved.