Clock Buffer Utilization - 2020.2 English

UltraFast Design Methodology Guide for Xilinx FPGAs and SoCs

Document ID
UG949
Release Date
2021-02-18
Version
2020.2 English

The report_clock_utilization command provides details on clock primitive utilization. Observe the architecture clocking rules to avoid downstream placement issues. Invalid placement constraints or very high fanout for regional clock buffers might cause issues in the placer. For designs with very high clock buffer utilization, it might be necessary to lock the clock generators and some regional clock buffers to aid placement.

For some interfaces needing very tight timing relationship, it is sometimes better to lock specific resources for these signals which need very tight timing relationship, for example, source synchronous interfaces. In general, as a starting point for your design, lock only the I/Os unless there are specific reasons not to follow this approach as cited above.