Term · General Industry
Margin stack-up
The accumulation of separate safety margins added at each stage of a design, so the final product is far more conservative than any single decision intended. Reviewing the stack-up recovers performance that was given away by default.
- Also known as
- Margin stacking, Guardband stacking
- Type
- Term
- Domain
- General Industry, Silicon bring-up
Notes
Statistical and corner-based signoff methods exist largely to avoid multiplying independent worst cases that never occur together.
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