Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition User Guide: Third-party Synthesis

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Date 9/24/2018
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2.6.6. Controlling Fan-Out on Data Nets

Fan-out is defined as the number of nodes driven by an instance or top‑level port. High fan-out nets can cause significant delays that result in an unroutable net. On a critical path, high fan-out nets can cause longer delays in a single net segment that result in the timing constraints not being met. To prevent this behavior, each device family has a global fan‑out value set in the Precision Synthesis software library. In addition, the Intel® Quartus® Prime software automatically routes high fan-out signals on global routing lines in the Intel device whenever possible.

To eliminate routability and timing issues associated with high fan-out nets, the Precision Synthesis software also allows you to override the library default value on a global or individual net basis. You can override the library value by setting a max_fanout attribute on the net.