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21 years ago

SOPC Builder clock domain crossing

Hi, I just tried out the clock domain crossing feature in SOPC Builder 4.2, coming along with Quartus 4.2. As soon as I want to use a second clock for any of my peripherals, either the SOPC Buil...
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21 years ago

Running your memory at the same speed as the processor has it's advantages (look at today's PCs and how the system bus bogs down the entire system). I can't think of the reason why the memory would have to be at the same speed as the NIOS core, but I seem to remember hearing that it does when I learned about the clock crossing for the first time.

James or Jesse should know that one, or maybe I was just hearing things.

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