Abstract:
An integrated circuit may have pipelined programmable interconnects that are configured to select between a routing signal stored in a register and the identical routing signal bypassing the register. The pipelined programmable interconnect may send the selected routing signal over a wire to the next pipelined programmable interconnect circuitry. The integrated circuit may also have clock routing circuitry to select respective clock signals for the registers in the different pipelined programmable interconnects. The clock routing circuitry may include first interconnects that convey region clocks, second interconnects that conveys routing clocks, a first selector circuit to select routing clocks among the region clocks, and a second selector circuit to select routing clocks for the respective registers.
Abstract:
A method of configuring an integrated circuit device with a user logic design includes analyzing the user logic design to identify critical and near-critical cyclic logic paths within the user logic design, applying timing optimizations to the critical and near-critical cyclic logic paths, and retiming logic paths other than the critical and near-critical cyclic logic paths.