@tnt: Yes, you read that right. If you trace through the clock tree in verilog/gl/mgmt_soc.v, you'll find that the root of the so-called "tree" has a fanout of 924 cells. The root node is clocking some flops, and then other flops are clocked after a chain of six or seven buffers. The slew of that heavily loaded root node is close to 2ns. The difference in arrival time between the root node and the ends is something like 12ns.