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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

Can the setup/hold time violated be removed with TimeQuest?

I am a beginner in STA using TimeQuest. Now I have a basic understanding about STA using TimeQuest. I have a question which confused me: Take an example, if in a design, there is a path, from n...
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13 years ago

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The .qsf is the Quartus setting file.

When needed, you may be able to improve timing by fiddling with the Quartus synthesis/fitting options.

Also, sometimes manually placing some cells can also improve timing a bit.

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Thanks. Yes, fiddling with the Quartus synthesis/fitting options may work in some cases, but the options are very limited.

You mentioned "manually placing some cells", do you mean put a register in a failed path to increase a step pipeline as I described?

Thanks.