1. An electronic design automation apparatus, comprising: a datapath cell library including a plurality of circuit elements that may be selected to implement a circuit specification corresponding to a desired functional operation; a plurality of electronic design automation tools for processing said circuit specification including at least one synthesis tool and at least one analysis tool; and a shared physical information database, accessible by said plurality of electronic design automation tools, including physical information data corresponding to said plurality of circuit elements, said plurality of electronic design automation tools using said physical information data of said physical information database for analysis of said circuit specification, said analysis utilizing information in said shared physical information database that is accessed by at least one synthesis tool and at least one analysis tool.