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14 years ago

Nios Processor Troubleshooting Help

Hello, this is my first post on these forums so excuse me if this is already covered elsewhere. I have searched for threads describing problems similar to mine but I haven't figured this out. I...
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14 years ago

That is a maximum FPGA fabric frequency. Interconnects and soft processors are fairly complicated so it's physically not possible to achieve those speeds in an FPGA. That maximum speed is achievable for logic like this:

Register --> little bit of combinational logic --> Register --> little bit of combinational logic --> etc....