Determine Whether Pipelining is Needed - Determine Whether Pipelining is Needed - 2026.1 English - UG1387

Versal Adaptive SoC Hardware, IP, and Platform Development Methodology Guide (UG1387)

Document ID
UG1387
Release Date
2026-07-22
Version
2026.1 English

A commonly used pipelining technique is to identify a large combinatorial logic path. Break the large path into smaller paths. Introduce a register stage between these smaller paths. Ideally, balance each pipeline stage.

To determine whether a design requires pipelining, identify the frequency of the clocks and the amount of logic distributed across each of the clock groups. You can use the report_design_analysis Tcl command with the -logic_level_distribution option to determine the logic-level distribution for each of the clock groups.

Tip: The design analysis report highlights the number of paths with zero logic levels. You can use this information to determine where to modify in your code.