System and method for performing sign-off timing analysis of electronic circuit designs

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that when executed by a machine result in the following operations:

• receiving, using a processor, an electronic design;
• specifying, via a graphical user interface, a voltage sweep for each power net associated with the electronic design;
• specifying, via the graphical user interface, at least one voltage sweep to be excluded from analysis;
• automatically generating DVFS configurations based upon, at least in part, the voltage sweep for each power net and the at least one voltage sweep to be excluded from analysis;
• generating a bounded corner configuration based upon, at least in part, the voltage sweep and the at least one voltage sweep to be excluded;
• and
• identifying a voltage domain crossing (VDC) only network based upon, at least in part, the bounded corner configuration.

A system for dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) based timing signoff associated with an electronic design environment comprising:

• a computing device having at least one processor configured to receive an electronic design;
• and
• a graphical user interface configured to allow a user to specify a voltage sweep for each power net associated with the electronic design and to specify at least one voltage sweep to be excluded from analysis;
• wherein the at least one processor is further configured to automatically generate one or more DVFS configurations based upon, at least in part, the voltage sweep for each power net and the at least one voltage sweep to be excluded from analysis;
• wherein the at least one processor is further configured to generate a bounded corner configuration based upon, at least in part, the voltage sweep and the at least one voltage sweep to be excluded and wherein the at least one processor is further configured to identify a voltage domain crossing (VDC) only network based upon, at least in part, the bounded corner configuration.