I have an application that has 300 pins on a tri-stated bus. They have a tight offset constraint for the output time. Driving the T on the OBUFT for all those off the same line fails time spec because the fanout (of 300) stretches the time a little too long. In Synplicity, you turn on the duplicate register option, and it will duplicate the last register on the T line 300 times so that the timespec will pass. XST is clueless. It seems to not even care that it is failing timespec; it does no register duplication to fix failed OFFSET constraints. I had to duplicate the register myself by declaring a bunch of them. Anyone else seen the same issue?
XST duplicate register option does not work
Apr 21, 2006
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I've done the same thing myself. I noticed that XST will duplicate a register to go into an IOB if it is also used internally (one register for feedback and another going out), but I haven't seen it duplicate registers to reduce fanout. If you also have a fast clock, be aware that the signal driving your 300 OBUFT D-FF's may have a tough time meeting the period spec...
Good luck, Gabor
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