Patent ID: 8365125

Claim:
A system for capturing physical and electrical characteristics of a power distribution system, comprising: at least one processor that is at least to: define physical information about one or more conductive segments of the power distribution system, wherein the one or more conductive segments are used to connect one or more components within a design of a system-on-a-chip; describe the electrical characteristics of the one or more circuit components in the design of the power distribution system by using an electrical network; identify connectivity information from a netlist; identify one or more locations of one or more current consuming electrical devices within the one or more circuit components at a hierarchical level in the design of the system-on-a-chip; and identify or determine an electrical model for the one or more current consuming electrical devices within the one or more circuit components based at least in part upon the one or more locations of the one or more current consuming electrical devices by using at least the connectivity information to verify or validate another hierarchical level of the design of the system-on-a-chip with at least the electrical model, wherein the at least one processor is free to traverse the design in a top-down manner and a bottom-up manner to analyze the another hierarchical level of the design.