Static Timing Analysis of Dynamically Sensitizable Paths

This paper describes a new method for solving the false path problem in static timing analysis of acyclic, combinational circuits. The conditions under which a path is false are accurately defined. The fact that these conditions explicitly take into account the dynamic behaviour of the circuit, constitutes the main contribution of the paper. An algorithm for computing the longest dynamically sensitizable paths in an acyclic, combinational circuit is presented.