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15 years ago

Cyclone4 NIOS can only run at 60M?

hi every one; first using niosii , with the demo board"civgx_trans_starter_board" which is EP4CGX15BF14; using the example"bts_general" offered by the kit, this example contains"TSE/SSRAM/FL...
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15 years ago

You're wrong, pipelining does increase fmax a lot, when you put them at the right place. I don't know if there is any documentation about the fmax of a Nios setup, because it depends a lot on the configuration.

On Cyclone III it is very easy to reach 100MHz, and with some care 120MHz shouldn't be a problem. I never tried to get over that.

Have a look at the SOPC builder log during generation, I think it says which core(s) don't have a license.