28. The article of manufacture of claim 26 , the act of maintaining the one or more pertinent elements comprising: identifying or determining a change in a signal of the one or more pertinent elements; identifying or determining an expression associated with the signal; and determining whether the expression includes a combination of a legal element and an illegal element.
26. The article of manufacture of claim 25 , the act of identifying, generating, or modifying the standardized power data in the standardized power format with the illegal signal in the mixed-signal electronic design further comprising: parsing at least a part of the standardized power data in the standardized power format including the illegal signal; maintaining one or more pertinent elements of the at least a part of the standardized power data in one or more databases; and evaluating the at least a part of the standardized power data.