US Patent 10169501 Timing context generation with multi-instance blocks for hierarchical analysis

Electronic design automation systems, methods, and media are presented for hierarchical timing analysis with multi-instance blocks. Some embodiments involve generation of a combined timing context for instances of a multi-instance block. Such embodiments may merge timing context information with multi-mode multi-context (MMMC) views for different instances of a multi-instance block. Other embodiments involve efficient merging of instance timing contexts during block level static timing analysis. Various different embodiments involve separate or hybrid merged timing analysis based on a user selection.