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14 years ago

Floating point numbers and latency

I have just implemented the Fibonacci design explained on the ch4 Primitive Library Tutorial. I wanted to try it using floating point numbers so i changed the parameters of the blocks, after the f...
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14 years ago

In your zero latency example, it's true you would wait 10 cycles to see the data_out change, but you wouldn't wait any cycles at all to see valid_out change. That's why it has latency 0. The latency of 10 is functionally part of the design.