Optimizing High Fanout Nets - 2020.2 English

UltraFast Design Methodology Guide for Xilinx FPGAs and SoCs

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

High fanout nets often lead to implementation issues. Because die sizes increase with each device family, fanout problems also increase. It is often difficult to meet timing on nets that have many thousands of endpoints, especially if there is additional logic on the paths, or if they are driven from non-sequential cells, such as LUTs or distributed RAMs.