Description

Timing failures might occur in certain cases when using the Ten Gigabit Ethernet PCS/PMA v2.4 in Vivado 2012.2 for 7 series FPGAs.

Solution

To resolve potential failures and to improve timing and synthesis results (even if you are not experiencing failures), the following updates should be made to the XDC files:

change the following

create_clock -name RXOUTCLK_OUT -period 3.103 [get_pins * -hierarchical -filter {NAME =~ *RXOUTCLK_OUT}]
create_clock -name TXOUTCLK_OUT -period 3.103 [get_pins * -hierarchical -filter {NAME =~ *TXOUTCLK_OUT}]

to the following (if you are using GTX transceivers)

create_clock -name TXOUTCLK_OUT -period 3.103 [get_pins -of_objects [get_cells * -hierarchical -filter {REF_NAME=~ GTXE2_CHANNEL}] -filter {NAME =~ *TXOUTCLK}]
create_clock -name RXOUTCLK_OUT -period 3.103 [get_pins -of_objects [get_cells * -hierarchical -filter {REF_NAME=~ GTXE2_CHANNEL}] -filter {NAME =~ *RXOUTCLK}]

OR, to the following (if you are using GTH transceivers)

create_clock -name TXOUTCLK_OUT -period 3.103 [get_pins -of_objects [get_cells * -hierarchical -filter {REF_NAME=~ GTHE2_CHANNEL}] -filter {NAME =~ *TXOUTCLK}]
create_clock -name RXOUTCLK_OUT -period 3.103 [get_pins -of_objects [get_cells * -hierarchical -filter {REF_NAME=~ GTHE2_CHANNEL}] -filter {NAME =~ *RXOUTCLK}]