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15 years agoHow To Reference Input pins to Cells
I need to reference a pin which goes into the clock pin of a cell I have created. I have used the Net Finder within timequest yet I am still unable to reference this pin. I have been able to use the Net Finder to aid in refencing i/o ports and pll clock pins so it is just the input pin to this cell that is giving me problems.
Here is my situation: I have a clock mux controlled by hardware outside of the fpga. The output of the clock mux goes to a single input pin to the fpga (clock A, clock B). I have created SDC constraints for muxed clocks, clock A and clock B. This single input clock pin is connected to two cells (cell A, cell B). Cell A uses clock A and cell B uses clock B. I need to create a false path from clock A to Cell B and vice versa. Therefore I need to reference the input clock pins to each of these cells. I have tried using the following two SDC constraint but this did not create the false path I needed: set_false_path -from [get_clocks {pclk_pin_a}] -to [get_registers {*inst43*}] set_false_path -from [get_clocks {pclk_pin_a}] -to [get_nodes {*inst43*}] Am I doing this correctly? Is this how false paths are intended to be used? Is there a tutorial or information on how Timequest / tcl references pins?