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Altera_Forum
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13 years agoYou have already been answered but I can visualise the timing space as a triangle with 3 corners, top corner being best for timing:
corner 1 is the 0C fast model. Best for timing corner 2 is 0c slow model corner 3 is 85C slow model All cases fall on the triangle space. Definitions are given by altera as follows: 0C fast: fastest silicon + highest voltage + 0C 0C slow: slowest silicon + lowest voltage + 0C 85C slow: slowest silicon + lowest voltage + 85C Note: voltage within allowable range, silicon within chosen speed grade since corner 1 is best, I note that timequest gives fmax for corner 2 & 3 but not corner 1 To be more accurate, it is not a single triangle but imagine three axes say x,y,z where x is for temperature, y for voltage, z for silicon. at every case you can choose 3 points, one on each axis and draw a triangle. The centre of a given triangle becomes the timing space of your case. The whole set of triangles is the full timing space.