Term · General Industry
Margin
The distance between how a design actually performs and the limit it is required to meet, expressed in timing, voltage, thermal or noise terms. Most engineering arguments are really about where margin is held and who is permitted to spend it.
- Also known as
- Design margin
- Type
- Term
- Domain
- General Industry, Shop-floor jargon
Notes
Margin stacked independently at every stage compounds into pessimism, which is why teams pursue statistical rather than worst-case methods.
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