Signal delay skew reduction system

A method comprising performing the following steps with a computing device:

• receiving an initial netlist comprising components and connection paths among the components;
• identifying a skew group comprising the connection paths, including at least the first connection path and the second connection path, in the initial netlist;
• generating a skew-corrected netlist that comprises equivalent grounded shielding wires disposed adjacent to at least a portion of each of the connection paths in the skew group;
• and
• outputting the skew-corrected netlist.

A non-transitory medium comprising executable instructions capable of being read and executed by a computing system and thereby configuring the computing system to receive a logic design and to provide a corresponding physical design embodying the logic design, wherein the computing system executing the instructions performs a method comprising:

• receiving an initial netlist comprising components and connection paths among the components;
• identifying a first connection path in the initial netlist that comprises path fragments for which there are no equivalent path fragments in a second connection path in the initial netlist;
• generating a skew-corrected netlist wherein the second connection path is re-routed to have path fragments equivalent to the path fragments of the first connection path;
• and
• outputting the skew-corrected netlist.