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Altera_Forum
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17 years agosetup and hold time with set_input_delay
Hello, I have some problem understanding the set_input_delay min and max constraint. Assume that you have an interface that is connected to an FPGA. This interface has a clock (Clk) and a...
Altera_Forum
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17 years ago1) The assumption with generated_clocks is that there is a physical connection in the FPGA between the base clock and the generated clock, which TimeQuest then uses to calculate latency(delay). Note that clocks are related by default, so fpga_clk and ext_clk do have a relationship based on their edges.
2) I dislike Report Fmax and strongly recommend using slack as your measuring stick. Fmax works nicely when there is one clock domain and the transfers are all rising to rising, but can fall apart under more complex scenarios. Fmax calculations ignore transfers between different domains, because in many cases they don't work.