Clock skew is the insertion delay difference between the destination clock path and the source clock path: (1) from their common point in the design; (2) to, respectively, the endpoint and startpoint sequential cell clock pins.
In the equation below:
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Tcj
is the delay from the common node to the endpoint clock pin. -
Tci
is the delay from the common node to the startpoint clock pin:Tskewi,j = Tcj- Tci