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Altera_Forum
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10 years agoGlobal, Local, Regional, and Peripheral clocks
Hi All, How can I know what pins could be used as the Global, Local, Regional, and Peripheral clocks in the ArriaV device (as an example)? What difference between these clocks? Where to read ab...
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10 years agoThanks to all! It was a mistake of a board designer so he connected a clock source to a pin, which was not a dedicated clock pin. As the result, the fitter traveled to far for just picking up a global clock buffer. This travelling was resulted in the setup violations of about 3(!) clock cycles!
It seems I resolved the issue by switching the "Global Signal" pin attribute to OFF. https://www.alteraforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=11546