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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

alt_timestamp() question

Hi! I am just wondering if my understanding of the alt_timestamp is totally wrong... My oszillator clock is 50MHz which i can see in the sopc builder and which has never changed. I configured ...
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16 years ago

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@dsl:

I would like to understand this quoted phrase, but i cannot figure out where the "90" comes from. Could you explain this to me - perhaps i am having a mental blackout.

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It's the 90 seconds you mentioned.

This means that 50M increments/sec after 90 sec will overflow the 32bit timer counter.