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Altera_Forum
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14 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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14 years ago

I could not figure where the 5* came in .. wondered if you were thinking multicore, but now I see. An easy mistake to make. As an aside, I think there is a comparison(maybe not really apples and oranges) that shows the non pipelined version vs pipelined and it is nowhere near the theoretical max. If programmers would learn to not use so many branches, things would run a lot faster. Have fun.