Constraints: Clock, Logical DRC, Area, Power


14.    Constraints: Clock, Logical DRC, Area, Power

 
Design constraints are generally specified in “Synopsys Design Constraints” (SDC) form. SDC is very widely used and industry accepted standard for specifying design constraints.

Three types of constraints can be set for the design. They are:

1) Logical DRC constraints
2) Optimization constraints
3) Environmental constraints.