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14 years ago

cyclone 3 FPGA frequency

hello,

what's the recommended clock frequency for cyclone 3 FPGA's?

What is the criteria for selecting the clock frequency ?

thank you

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    Is there any min or max frequency range for cyclone 3 fpga?

    can i give GHZ frequency to fpga?
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    Clock speed is extremly design dependent. 1GHz is much too high a frequency. More realistic are 100-200Mhz, and you need some serious pipeline considerations to go faster than this.