Patent ID: 7487487

Claim:
A design structure for use as an input to a design flow embodied in a storage device, the design structure comprising: a clock source having a master clock output; a plurality of identical process monitors, each process monitor including: a clock input receiving a clock signal; a scan input receiving a scan signal; a first memory element receiving the scan signal from the scan input and the clock signal from the clock input; a delay monitor circuit receiving the scan signal from the first memory element; a second memory element receiving the scan signal from the delay monitor circuit and the clock signal from the clock input; a clock output receiving the clock signal from the clock input; and a scan output receiving the scan signal from the second memory element; wherein the process monitors are distributed at substantially regular intervals across the area of a chip; wherein the process monitors are connected in a daisy chain structure, so that the clock output of a process monitor is connected to the clock input of a next process monitor, and the scan output of the process monitor is connected to the clock input of the next process monitor; and wherein the master clock output is connected to the clock input of a first process monitor in the daisy chain structure.