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14 years agoCore performance is theoretical. Sometimes DSP designs can run close to that fast because they literally pipeline between almost every level of logic, but 9 levels of logic won't run that fast. I didn't see if any failing paths were in the LVDS block, but the top failing paths were from the RTL. Can you pipeline it.
300MHz is do-able for some stuff, but it's not easy. (Heck, lots of Stratix designs don't run that fast.) FYI, I just looked at a design that won't run at 20MHz in Arria II, which seems wrong at first glance. I looked and the critical path has over 400 levels of logic. So it varies...