Redressing Timing Issues for Speed-Independent Circuits in Deep Submicron Age

The class of speed independent (SI) circuits opens a promising way towards tolerating process variations. However, the fundamental assumption of speed independent circuits is that forks in some wires (usually, large percentage of wires) in such circuits are isochronic; this assumption is more and more challenged by the shrinking technology. This paper suggests a method to generate the weakest timing constraints for a SI circuit to work correctly under bounded delays in wires. The method works for all SI circuits and the generated timing constraints are significantly weaker than those suggested in the current literature claiming the weakest formally proved conditions.