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Skew balancing (delay matching)

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Skew balancing (delay matching). The clock reaches the sinks at different times. Add delay on the early branches to lift them up to the latest sink.

  • Skew under target - click an edge to add a delay buffer on it, which lifts every sink below it. Balance the early paths up until all sinks arrive together.
  • Latency in budget - do not lift past the budget.
  • Delay on a higher, shared edge lifts many sinks at once, so prefer it over padding each leaf: use the fewest delay buffers.

Balance the arrivals, then Submit design.