摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an analyzing method for coping with the use of a gated clock and the enlargement of a circuit, shortening a processing time, and accurately detecting a multi-cycle path. SOLUTION: An analysis of a circuit to be analyzed is made in correspondence with a name of each element including a cell for constituting the circuit to be analyzed, the meaning and the relation of a signal to a terminal of the element, and the determination of whether or not the path from a starting point to an end point is the multi-cycle path is made by using the result of the analysis. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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