Major Contributors to Long Delays
Excessive levels of logic
Excessive loading (high fan-out)
- When a driving signal drives out to more than one LAB, the PIA delay increases by 0.1 ns per additional LAB fan-out
- The 0.1 ns adder is the same for all devices
- To minimize the added delay, concentrate the destination macrocells into fewer LABs to minimize the number of LABs that are driven
Excessive Row/Column interconnect delay
- Worst-case timing parameters for typical applications
- tlocal :0.5 ns, trow : 0.9 ns, tcolumn : 0.9 ns