CLOCK TREE SYNTHESIS and terms used in it

[vimalraj205]

Hai friends

can anybody please help me in understanding these terms in CTS

when we generate the clock specification file

MaxDelay
MinDelay
MaxSkew
SinkMaxTran
BufMaxTran

what are the effects of the values specified for them in CTS
what if we change the values of each in CTS
why there are lots of buffer added with name convention CASCADE FENCE etc...

thank you.:roll:

 

[rca]

hi,
first of them all of this parameter could be changed by script:
specifyClockTree -update { AutoCTSRootPin <clock_nam> MaxDelay 10ns}
and "MaxDelay", could be replaced for "SinkMaxTran", "BufMaxTran", "Obstruction", ....

max/min delay: latency constraint of the clock tree.
Sink Max Trans: is the worst transition at leaf pins.
Buf Max Trans: is the worst transition acceptable for each pins in the clock tree.
don't over constraint and be consistant will all transition values provided by the liberty for each corners..