I am getting this error.
ERROR:Place:645 - A clock IOB clock component is not placed at an optimal clock IOB site The clock IOB component is placed at site IOB_X0Y57. The clock IO site can use the fast path between the IO and the Clock buffer/GCLK if the IOB is placed in the master Clock IOB Site. If this sub optimal condition is acceptable for this design you may set the environment variable XIL_PLACE_ALLOW_LOCAL_BUFG_ROUTING to demote this message to a WARNING and allow your design to continue.
I did the Control Panel, System, Advanced, Environment Variables, System varaible, New, Variable Name XIL_PLACE_ALLOW_LOCAL_BUFG_ROUTING Varaible Value SET ? This worked but is SET necessary or just having the variable name there enough?
This reduced the error to a warning.
Is there a way to get around this without this cryptic ritual?
Are there any clock inputs brought to headers on the ML403 or will I have to expand my board over to the DIFF CLK IN area and somehow tie into the SMA connectors there? Is there a way I can add a clock buf to the input I already have on the header? The signal is actually fairly slow since it frames the data, not clocks it. I feed it to a DCM to generate a clock signal internally.
Brad Smallridge aivision.com