Hi Andrew, thank you for your answer and for your great work. I remember, we already had a discussion on the silicon-validation channel.
I was asking Matthew explicitly about the clock-high-time extracted from the simulation. It would be a waste of my submission, if my estimation of 2ns is way off, or my understanding is wrong - which is usually the case. Of course I will add a margin and embed the chip in a proper test environment inspired by yours.
Your plots show the Fmax of the complete chip. With all due respect – and I stated it earlier already – I’m not convinced, that you can derive from them the Fmax of the SRAMs or the clock-high-time of SRAMs. Certainly the minimal boundary, as you already stated.
In the very late 90’ we did R4000 RISCs at 250MHz in µ18 at LSI Logic with a lot of SRAMs ($, TLB, ...). The OpenRAM SRAMs might be less timing optimized, different node and fab etc., but I can roughly recall the SRAM timings of that time.
@User Just a minimal clock-high-time value (if my understanding is correct) derived from the simulation would already be awesome and very helpful for my project. Thank you in advance.