Design Compiler: Rising in frequency ?

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Hi Everybody,
I need to design a synchronizer operating at least at 20 Ghz. I designed a DFF with Design Compiler and using the newest Standards cell library. For this library the maximum frequency constrain for a simple DFF is around 1.3 Ghz. I understood that I can't go further in frequency and that the synchronizer will operate at inferior rate.
1 / Please can some one tell me how to design Digital High speed (Multi-Ghz) devices in VHDL. Is that possible ?

if no

2/ How may I build my synchronizer ? Should I move to design it at the transistor level with the conventional analog design tools ?

Please dont hesitate to poste replies.
Thanks a lot,

Cheers,
Master_PicEngineer
 

I guess you will have to build it yourself (at transistor level ) and characterize it and build the necessary lib file for this flip-flop. But you must make sure that the technology you are using is fast enough for building a flip-flop at such high speed.
 

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