- MBUFGCE primitives not allowed for boundary clock nets.
- MBUFG primitives in Versal allows clock division at the leaf level to reduce clock track utilization and improve timing closure on synchronous CDCs. For DFX designs, MBUFG optimization is allowed only for static clock nets or internal RM clock nets. Boundary clock nets can continue to use BUFGCE_DIV/MMCM/PLL clocking primitives for clock division. However, this will have reduced QoR benefits compared to using MBUFG primitives since latter provides common clock node closer to loads at the leaf level. Hence it is recommended to use MMCM/PLL inside partitions of the DFX design to convert a boundary clock net to internal clock net which can leverage MBUFG optimizations of Vivado.
- Restrictions in clock resource usage due to clock tile splitting.
- When clock tile is shared between multiple RPs, it is possible that some of the nodes cannot be used for clock routing. To avoid potential unroutability because of tile splitting, DFX flow automatically prohibits usage of few clocking tiles. To avoid this scenario, Xilinx recommends keeping at least one clock region wide gap between multiple RP pblocks if utilization estimation meets the design need.