1. A design analysis workstation (DAW) for analyzing an integrated circuit, the integrated circuit having been subjected to a sequence of deconstruction steps in which a digital image-mosaic of the integrated circuit was acquired at each deconstruction step to permit design and layout information to be extracted therefrom, the DAW comprising: a) means for displaying each image-mosaic in a corresponding mosaic-view; b) means for displaying an annotation overlay over an image-mosaic in at least one of the mosaic-views; and c) means for editing annotation objects associated with the annotation overlay.