Critical Issue
Description
In 40GbE and 100GbE MAC and PHY IP cores, the Quartus II software reports minimum pulse width violations for 10-Gbps Low Latency PHY designs on the following clock signals:
x_top|sv_low_latency_phy_inst|sv_low_latency_phy_inst|sv_xcvr_low_latency_phy_nr_inst|sv_xcvr_10g_custom_native_inst|sv_xcvr_native_insts[0].gen_bonded_group_native.sv_xcvr_native_inst|inst_sv_pcs|ch[1].inst_sv_pcs_ch|inst_stratixv_hssi_rx_pld_pcs_interface|pld10grxclkout~CLKENA0|outclk
x_top|sv_low_latency_phy_inst|sv_low_latency_phy_inst|sv_xcvr_low_latency_phy_nr_inst|sv_xcvr_10g_custom_native_inst|sv_xcvr_native_insts[0].gen_bonded_group_native.sv_xcvr_native_inst|inst_sv_pcs|ch[1].inst_sv_pcs_ch|inst_stratixv_hssi_rx_pld_pcs_interface|wys|pld10grxpldclk
Resolution
This issue is fixed in the 12.1 Quartus software release of the IP core.
For the 12.0 release of the IP core, please ignore these paths. These minimum pulse width violations are for false paths.