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Altera_Forum
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14 years agoIn addition to the tCO you got from the ADC datasheet, you need to obtain (or guesstimate) the propagation delay from the ADC to the FPGA (tPD1) and the propagation delay from the clock source to the ADC (tPD2) and from the clock source to the ADC (tPD3).
You can then estimate the input delay as input_delay = tCO + tPD1 + tPD2 - tPD3. You need to obtain a maximum and minimum value for this. I usually use a 6 ps/mm to 8 ps/mm delay for the board traces. To keep me from getting lost, I like to draw a timing diagrams at the various points.