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Honored ContributorSteps to constrain a design
Hello, I'm trying to understand timing constraints and I have a really hard time trying to figure out how this works. The first thing is the representation of setup and hold times. In my e...
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Honored ContributorTimeQuest analyzes all edges, but a register only works on one edge. So if your register clocks data on the rising edge, TimeQuest only analyzes rising edges for that. If it clocks on the falling edge, it only analyzes falling edge transfers. Might I suggest looking at Section 2 of the following User Guide I put together:
http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/timequest_user_guide I generally find the most difficult part with hold time is that the default hold relationship follows the setup relationship, so if you add a multicycle -setup, the default hold relationship changes. That's usually the biggest stumbling block.
