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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

change ticks to seconds

Hello, i wanna check the processing time of certain function by using alt_timestamp. When i get the freq using alt_timestamp_freq and divide it with number of ticks, the value is always 0. why?
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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Well, if I understand you correctly, are you dividing the frequency by the number of ticks? In that case after one second you will always get 0 as the number of ticks will be always higher than the frequency. You should do it the opposite way.