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Honored ContributorIt is about the most difficult thing you can do. (And there are a lot of cases, each one just different enough from the other that if you don't know what to look for and what you're looking at, it gets confusing). Being able to read the report_timing Data Path tab and understand it has been the most useful thing for me. I find people just plug constraints/numbers into the .sdc and look at the slack, but don't really get how those constraints are used and what's being analyzed. If you have some time:
http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/source_synchronous_analysis_with_timequest
