After placement, the estimated net delays are close to the best possible route, except for long and medium-to-high fanout nets, which use more pessimistic delays. In addition, congestion or hold fixing impact are not accounted for in the net delays at this point, which can make the timing results optimistic.
Clock skew is accurately estimated and can be used to review imbalanced clock trees impact on slack. You can estimate hold fixing by running min delay analysis. Large hold violations where the WHS is -0.500 ns or greater between slices, block RAMs or DSPs will need to be fixed. Small violations are acceptable and will likely be fixed by the router.
Note: Paths to/from dedicated blocks like the
PCIe®
block can have hold time
estimates greater than -0.500 ns that get automatically fixed by the router. For these
cases, check
report_timing_summary after routing to verify that all
corresponding hold violations are fixed.