Skew Definition - 2025.2 English - UG906

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Design Analysis and Closure Techniques (UG906)

Document ID
UG906
Release Date
2025-12-10
Version
2025.2 English

Clock skew is the difference in insertion delay between the destination clock path and the source clock path. You measure it from their common point in the design to the endpoint and startpoint sequential cell clock pins, respectively.

In the equation Tskewi,j = Tcj- Tci, Tcj and Tci are defined as follows:

Tcj
The delay from the common node to the endpoint clock pin.
Tci
The delay from the common node to the startpoint clock pin.