Method for optimizing circuit timing based on flexible register timing library

Abstract

Disclosed in the present invention is a method for optimizing circuit timing based on a flexible register timing library. First, registers are simulated respectively in a case of a plurality of groups of an input signal conversion time, a clock signal conversion time, and a register load capacitance, corresponding actual propagation delays at this time are obtained by changing setup slack and hold slack of the registers, and actual propagation delays of the registers under specific input signal conversion time, clock signal conversion time, register load capacitances, setup slack, and hold slack are obtained through linear interpolation, to establish a flexible register timing library; and then static timing analysis is performed on all register paths in a circuit by using the library, a minimum clock cycle under a condition of satisfying that a setup time margin and a hold time margin are both greater than zero is found by changing the setup slack and hold slack of the registers, thereby improving the performance of the circuit without changing the design of the circuit and without increasing the area overheads of the circuit.