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Constraint for phase-shifted external clock (Specifying Clock Waveform Edges)
- 2 years ago
After looking at the Board Configuration, I believe this is Source-Synchronous Interface.
You may refer to the AN 433: Constraining and Analyzing Source-Synchronous Interfaces, section "Input Clock Constraints" on how to constraint the clock.
With the current clock constraints you have, they are not synchronous with each other. Therefore, meeting either the phase-shift or frequency requirement cannot fulfill both requirements simultaneously.
One approach I can suggest is to write a clock constraint in such a way that Quartus treats this as a PLL, ensuring that both clocks are synchronous with each other.
Regards,
Richard Tan
With those fractional frequencies, I don't think the two clocks are exactly synchronous to each other, so they are going to line up at some point, which the timing analyzer is pointing out.
3.571 x 4 = 14.284 < 14.286