"Ying Hu" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Thanks Martin for the valuable
> advice.
>
> Actually I already made some improvements to the design by
> reducing Level_Of_Logic, adding FFs and giving some attributes.
>
> Since all the 5 FPGAs shares the same design and some of them can
> run at a higher frequency, I think floorplanning is a better choice to
> meet the timing requirement.
>
> For the current project, No manual floorplanning is done.
> After adding those VHDL files and UCF files, I just let ISE to run automatically.
>
> Frankly speaking, I know nothing about floorplanning. Could anyone recommend any book/tutorial on this topic?

Try to remove pin loc in your UCF, keep the clock/others constraints
and let the SW assign the pins for you, see how fast you can go? From
the result you may learn something...