Is there an SDC/TCL command for returning the clock associated with a logic cell?

[krieg]

In Vivado, I can do this with

set myreg [get_cells -hierarchihcal myregister] set myreg_clk [get_clocks -of_objects $myreg]

The Quartus version of get_clocks does not seem to have the -of_objects argument. Has anyone figured out a way to get the clock associated with a logic cell?

A little background: I have a design that uses multiple clock domains and I want to be able to add constraints based on the clock periods. In Vivado, I wrote a constraints file that does this for all instances of my design within the top-level design. I am trying to do the same in Quartus.

I am using Quartus Prime Pro 18.0.

[sstrell]

When you create the clock constraints themselves in your .sdc file, you define the period. There's no need that I see to know what logic the clock is driving. That's set up in your design itself.

I guess you could use the get_fanouts collection (not standard SDC) to create a collection of all the logic driven by a clock. Something like this:

set myreg_clk [get_fanouts [get_pins pll|outclk] -through [get_pins -hierarchical *|clk]]

So whatever registers have this PLL clock output driven into the registers' clk input will be included in the collection. Is that what you're looking for?

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[krieg]

Thanks for your reply.

I agree with your first statement. There is no need to know what logic my clocks are driving. Allow me to explain more about what I am trying to do.

My design is intended for reuse and will be implemented in many top-level designs, all with potentially different clocking schemes. I am writing a constraints file that any future user of my design can add to his/her project. It needs to correctly apply constraints based on the top-level design's clock domains. For this reason, the constraints file needs to be agnostic to the top-level design's clocking scheme.

So I am not trying to determine which registers are driven by each clock. Rather I am trying to determine which clock is driving a specific register.

I think it may be possible to accomplish this with what you suggested. It would go something like this:

• Get the register that I want to constrain
• Get a list of all clocks in the top-level design
• Get a list of all registers driven by each clock
• Match my register to one of the lists (now I know which clock drives my register)

This would be several lines of code (as opposed to the two lines that it took in Vivado). I'm hoping there is a simpler solution to this, but I think that this would get the job done. If you have any more suggestions based on what I wrote here, I would be happy to hear them. Either way, I will post my final solution so that others can possibly benefit from it.

[krieg · Accepted solution]

Taking inspiration from sstrell's answer, I was able to solve this.

The code below is an excerpt from my initial success. It has not yet been tested with multiple designs.

# get all clocks set clks [all_clocks] # get the register that I want to constrain set my_reg [get_cells -hierarchical *myregistername] # get all fanins to my register (use -stop_at_clock so it doesn't go all the way back to the master clock) set fanins [get_fanins -clock -stop_at_clocks [get_object_info -name $my_reg]] # find which fanin is a clock pin foreach_in_collection fanin $fanins { if {[get_object_info -type $fanin] == "pin"} { if {[get_pin_info -is_clock_pin $fanin]} { set clkpin $fanin } } } # get the clock pin net ID set clknet [get_pin_info -net $clkpin] # compare the clock pin net ID to each clock in the design; get the period of the clock that matches foreach_in_collection clk $clks { if {[get_object_info -name [get_clock_info -targets $clk]] == [get_object_info -name $clknet]} { set clkperiod [get_clock_info -period $clk] } }

[KennyTan_Altera]

good to hear that. have to test in multiple designs?

[KennyTan_Altera]

Any update?