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9 years agoYou don't say what device family in particular you are looking at (CycloneIV, V, Max, Stratix, ...) but have you read the detailed electrical data sheets for the family/device you are looking at? They have pretty detailed specs on PLL characteristics (jitter, etc).
The 'set_clock_uncertainty' timequest command allows adding additional jitter/uncertainty to a clock rail if necessary. Are you aware of this? (in answer to question one). This would apply to Quartus place/route timing calculations, not modelsim simulation before place/route. How much extra jitter to add however is going to be a guess, unless you can derive the power supply noise to clock jitter transfer function (not easy without the detailed circuit level design of the FPGA). In answer to question two, I have never seen such a tool that uses s-params for FPGA timing. Sounds like a good PhD project. Backing up to square one, why are you so concerned about clock jitter? Is your application some how very critical in this respect?