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The two parts are at speed grade 5 and 4 respectively - Drop in timing performance seems to be in general across many internal paths of the device (ie nothing to do with i/o's or anything like that) .... Just seems to be generally worse in standard RTL timing with a c4 Arria V compared to a c5 Arria II which I wasn't expecting ... One thing I've noticed when looking at the failing paths is there seems to be a lot of paths where clock skew is higher than I'd expect (sometimes up to 2 ns) which isn't helping with meeting timing. Clocks are properly set and constrained and on proper inputs and global routing paths, just seems like a bad job is being done on balancing the clock tree perhaps ? In general it just seems that on a fairly standard, if largish, RTL design I'm just not getting the sort of performance I'd expect and wondered if anyone else had similar experience or whether I'm just missing something
EP2AGX125EF35C5 -> 5AGXFB3H4F35C4