Associating physical design metrics of a circuit design with register transfer level representations of the circuit design

Abstract

Design metrics from the physical design of an integrated circuit are made available to the front end designer. Physical design metrics are computed for sub-circuits from the physical design of an integrated circuit. Examples of physical design metrics include metrics for timing, congestion, power consumption and other metrics that depend on physical aspects of the circuit. Correspondence between the sub-circuits and register transfer level (RTL) source elements from RTL source code for the integrated circuit are determined. Examples of RTL source elements include individual lines of RTL source code, modules in the RTL source code, and user-defined constructs in the RTL source code. For different RTL source elements, the physical design metrics for the corresponding sub-circuits are aggregated. These aggregated physical design metrics, including the associations to the corresponding RTL source elements, are made available to users, for example front end designers.