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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

small number of timing failures

Probably a stupid question but is there a reason why Quartus cannot tweak the design slighty when only a handful of paths fail to meet timing by a very small amount? e.g. my design fails to mee...
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14 years ago

Its probably because Quartus cant identify mulitcycle setups by itself unless you specify. So it just leaves the path alone and lets the the user decide on it. Not sure though.

I have one question:

I think I know when to use "set multicycle path" and "set false path", I want to clarify it with someone. When do you use them?

Thanks,

AA