Understanding Xilinx Timing Constraints Analysis Report

Aug 10, 2004 0 Replies

Hi all,



I am confused with the "Clock to Setup on destination clock " section of the report. I am using differential clocks and the data doesn't seem right. Here is an example:



Clock to Setup on destination clock clk_dco_N



---------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | Src:Rise| Src:Fall| Src:Rise| Src:Fall| Source Clock |Dest:Rise|Dest:Rise|Dest:Fall|Dest:Fall|



---------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ clk_dco_N | 5.280| | | | clk_dco_P | 5.294| | | |



---------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+



This seems to contradict to the achieved 4.7 ns clock period on the internal clk_dco if I only understand correctly what this spec means... According to the Xilinx Answer Database this means the Q of a flip-flop that is running on one of the "source" clocks will reach the D of a flip-flop that is running on the "destination" clock (in this case clk_dco_N) in no more than "X"ns. Does this make sense at all for differential clocks?


/Mikhail


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