TMC-20213: Paths Failing Setup Analysis with Locally Routed Clock

Description

Violation of this rule identifies setup failing paths that use local routing resources in their clock path. As compared to local routing resources global resources have much less min max spread and consquently reduce the amount of clock skew.

Parameters

Name Description Type Default Value Min Value Max Value
maximum_setup_slack Reports a violation for timing paths that have a setup slack below the value of this parameter. double 0.0    
minimum_number_of_adders Reports a violation for timing endpoints that are preceded by a number of independent adder chains greater than or equal to this value. integer 3    
minimum_number_of_soft_mult_chains Reports a violation for timing endpoints that are preceded by a number of independent adder chains that are implementing multiplier logic greater than or equal to this value. integer 2    

Recommendation

If there are no more global resources available and the number of clocks cannot be reduced, the number of fan-outs should be reduced to prevent having to route as far which will decrease the skew present. Otherwise the associated node on the clock path should be promoted to global routing using the QSF "set_instance_assignment -name GLOBAL_SIGNAL GLOBAL_CLOCK -to <instance_name>".

Severity

Medium

Device Family

  • Intel® Stratix® 10
  • Intel® Agilex™
  • Intel® Arria® 10
  • Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX