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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

How to see the critical path of the design?

After the design is fully compiled, there is a parameter in different corner mode that is fmax. As my understand, this value depends on the length of critical path in the design. If the critical path...
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13 years ago

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If you have several clocks in your design, each one is analysed by Timequest, and the maximum possible value is given for each one of them.

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So that means there is a critical path for each clock. I just realize that I can check the critical path if it fails to meet time requirements in "Top failing paths" report. But if my design meet time requirement, but I still want to find where the critical path is, what should I do？

Thanks very much.