System and method for providing an improved sliding window scheme for clock mesh analysis

Abstract

A method is provided and includes accessing a description of a chip, which includes sequential elements and a clock mesh. Items used include: the description of the chip, the information for modeling the sequential elements and interconnections, and the set of parameters of the clock mesh. Additionally, the method includes determining a plurality of original window locations covering the clock mesh. Further, for each original window location, the method includes expanding the original window location in one or more directions to generate a larger window location; generating a mesh simulation model inside the larger window location; simulating the mesh simulation model; measuring clock timing for the sequential elements in the original window location based on the simulation of the mesh simulation model; and collecting timing information on all the sequential elements on the chip based on the measured clock timing for the sequential elements in the original window locations.