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illegal/unconstrained/constrained clocks

Altera_Forum
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What does it mean when the clock I use everywhere in the design, which happens to be the output of a PLL, is shown as "illegal" in the timing analyser clock status summary? And the raw clock input that feeds only the PLL and nothing else, is shown as "unconstrained" ?

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Altera_Forum
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You need to constrain your input clock with a "create_clock command". 

Then you need to constrain the PLL output clocks, using the "derive_pll_clocks" command.
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