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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

What is the maximum processing speed of NIOS II?

HI, I know that NIOS II can be clocked to a maximum of 185MHz, and it has 6 pipeline stages, wouldn't the processing speed be 185Mhz as well?? Otherwise, what's the effective processing speed...
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15 years ago

hehe my bad.. all the time i was comparing the pipeline to a non-pipelined processor in my head. so the pipelined version would have 6*(the effective processor speed of a non-pipelined system) but the maximum you can achieve is the clock speed. sorry for my mistake :)