An ACE visualizer for your design’s clocking structure – welcome to Bluepearl’s ACE!

Recently Blue Pearl Software announced the availability of a new feature named ACE – Advanced Clock Environment (http://www.bluepearlsoftware.com/ace/ ). We at VerifWorks tried it on one of our existing DSP designs. The design is not very complex, but it has multiple clock domains, as the core clock is faster than the Enqueue and Dequeue logic. […]

A CDC 101 – what’s metastability & Clock Domain Crossing?

As we bring Blue Pearl’s advanced design verification solutions to India, let’s share the knowledge on the problems being addressed using these products. Here, in this article we  leverage on Blue Pearl’s introductory article. Quoting straight from http://www.bluepearlsoftware.com/ace/ At its most basic level, metastability is what happens within a register when data changes too soon before or after […]