How to count levels of logic in timing paths?

Hi,

My apologies for the delay in responding. I have been requesting information from the customer.

If I understand @Ryan_S_Intel 's comments correctly, levels of logic are not terribly useful beyond getting a rough sense of whether they are feasible given a path's timing budget - if not, some redesign is recommended. As you stated, maybe in reality there are too many things going on at the same time. Levels of logic is a single check and probably not the most important one.

Regarding @Ryan_S_Intel 's question about Hyper-Timing, here is the Extra Info portion from a similar path (the design has since changed):

Is it correct to say that Hyper-Timing is expected to move all endpoints away from ALM registers to hyper-register locations by default, if there are no restrictions?

There does not seem to be any Retiming restrictions stated, yet the endpoints are still ALM Registers.

Thank you for your comments. Much appreciated.