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Chapter Overview
This chapter deals with worst-case timing analysis and includes
the following sections:
Digital Worst-Case Timing
on page 16-2
Starting Worst-Case Timing Analysis on page 16-3
Simulator Representation of Timing Ambiguity on page 16-3
Propagation of Timing Ambiguity on page 16-5
Identification of Timing Hazards on page 16-6
Convergence Hazard on page 16-6
Critical Hazard on page 16-7
Cumulative Ambiguity Hazard on page 16-8
Reconvergence Hazard on page 16-10
Glitch Suppression Due to Inertial Delay on page 16-12
Methodology on page 16-13