A system and method for unfolding/replicating logic paths to facilitate
propagation delay modeling are provided. With the system and method, nets
of an integrated circuit design are unfolded and logic of these nets is
replicated such that each leg of a fanout can be driven independently
from the signal source. In order to unfold the nets, the nets and logic
are replicated in the netlist and connected to replicated source and
endpoints. These new nets in the netlist may then be driven separately
such that a different propagation delay along different nets from the
same source may be simulated. In this way, a level of propagation delay
may be abstracted into the modeling by driving or delaying each path
separately. The transitioning value will then appear to have differing
arrival times from the perspective of the sinks.