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Altera_Forum
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10 years ago

What is the Clockmargin?

Hi all, I am a new Quartus and DSP Bulder User. And I want to ask a simple question. When using DSP Builder Advaned Blokst , we shold set 'Clock Margin(MHz)' that is in a 'Signals' Block. B...
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10 years ago

clock margin to account for jitter around your entered clock frequency.

It can also be used to fool the tool for higher clock speed and so increase timing margin.