The Vivado® integrated design environment (IDE) provides several reporting commands to verify that your design meets all timing constraints and is ready to be loaded on the application board. Report Timing Summary is the timing signoff report, equivalent to TRCE in the ISE® Design Suite. Report Timing Summary provides a comprehensive overview of all the timing checks, and shows enough information to allow you to start analyzing and debugging any timing issue. For more information, see Logic Analysis in the IDE.
You can generate this report in a window, write it to a file, or print it in your log file. Whenever Report Timing Summary shows that your design does not meet timing, or is missing some constraints, you can explore the details provided in the various sections of the summary and run more specific analysis. The other timing reports provide more details on a particular situation and can scope the analysis to some logic by using filters and scoping capabilities.
Before adding timing constraints to your design, you must understand the fundamentals of timing analysis, and the terminology associated with it. This chapter discusses some of key concepts used by the Vivado IDE timing engine.