Patent ID: 8312406

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for processing electronic design automation information about an electronic design, comprising: receiving design information about an electronic design; generating location-based variation data for the electronic design by analyzing the design information, wherein the location-based variation data corresponds to multiple manufacturing processes, wherein the location-based variation data is associated with a particular location of the electronic design and wherein the location-based variation data comprises average thickness/topology information for the particular location; and generating, by using a computer processor, conversion information to convert the location-based variation data to net-based variation data to be used by an electrical analysis tool to perform electrical analysis upon the electronic design, wherein the net-based variation data is associated with one or more nets of the particular location of the electronic design, wherein the location-based variation data and the conversion information are either displayed to a user on a display device or stored on a volatile or non-volatile storage medium in a data structure configured to store the location-based variation data or the conversion information and wherein the conversion information comprises net-based thickness/topology adjustments for the one or more nets of the particular location.