Thanks for the pointers and sorry if my question was not clear, i was not asking the fixes for general scenarios. my Question was that can we have setup and hold violation (both) on a single D pin of a flop at the same time.. Then how to solve it.
Yes, there are several ways to get it
- too much delay skew
- the input signal is too fast (not stable for a sufficient long amount of time) respectively the D-FF too slow
fix the setup violation, then buffer the hold violation at the Q pin of the launching flop with the hold violation (or at least somewhere on the path not common to the setup violation)
This is assuming the violations are not from the same launching flops.