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Honored Contributorset_output_delay explained for dummies
Hello. I have tried to wrap my brain around the documentation describing "set_output_delay", but I just don't seem to get it. My brain thinks like this: "Relative to the rising-edge of my ou...
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Honored ContributorIsn't pushing the output clock forward time equivalent to pushing the data backwards in time? Why wouldn't that make sense?
I thought I had it, but I think I'm back to being confused. I guess I'm still confused as to why anything needs to be pushed negative in time. If the clock is output a time zero, and the data needs to arrive at t=1.0ns, wouldn't the proper skewing be that I need to add positive delay to the data and no delay to the clock?
