METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING SWITCHING RACE CONDITIONS IN A CIRCUIT DESIGN

摘要

The present invention is directed to a method for evaluating a circuit design to identify potential race conditions including the steps of identifying switching elements in a design, storing control node and switched node pair information for each of the switching elements, identifying stacks of the switching elements; storing information about the stacks of switching elements; identifying parallel connected ones of the switching elements; identifying parallel stacks; and calculating a combined switching current for the parallel switching elements and stacks.