Using Intra-Clock Timing Paths - 2020.2 English

UltraFast Design Methodology Guide for Xilinx FPGAs and SoCs

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

Timing paths with the same source and destination clocks that are driven by the same clock buffer typically exhibit very low skew. This is because the common node is located on the dedicated clock network, close to the leaf clock pins, as shown in the following figure.

Figure 1. Typical Synchronous Clocking Topology with Common Node Located on Green Net

When analyzing the clock path in the timing report, the delays before and after the common node are not provided separately because the common node only exists in the physical database of the design and not in the logical view. For this reason, you can see the common node in the Device window of the Vivado IDE when the Routing Resources are turned on but not in the Schematic window. The timing report only provides a summary of skew calculation with source clock delay, destination clock delay, and credit from clock pessimism removal (CPR) up to the common node.