Input Ports - Input Ports - 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

You can use an input port as the primary clock root as shown in the following figure.

Figure 1. create_clock for Input Ports

Constraint example:

create_clock -name SysClk -period 10 -waveform {0 5} [get_ports sysclk]

This example defines the waveform to have a 50% duty cycle. The -waveform argument is shown above to describe its usage and is only necessary to define a clock with a duty cycle other than 50%. For more information, refer to the create_clock Tcl command in the Vivado Design Suite Tcl Command Reference Guide (UG835). For a differential clock input buffer, the primary clock only needs to be defined on the P-side of the pair.