What’s the fun in ‘in time’…

 Inherent in PD engineers to just meet the setup time without violating the hold time 🙂 also ask for some waiver on setup uncertainty but never violate hold 🙂

Metal DRCs can be left out for presentation time let the base get through...
Start the gds out while the final sta and PV runs are still on...
Submitting in time is an NP problem for Engineers in general and PD engineers in particular... so when the time is 'on time' they wrap it up with bare minimum aspects met and stop the algo...
90% of timing violations converge in the eco stages...the real work starts with the war room or the dungeon...
But then what's the fun 'in time'..:the fun is in the tie breaker./.the super over...the Argentina scoring to level and more in the last of the extra time...
The real fun is in the last picosecond...

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