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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

hold timing and clock frequency considerations

hello all, two questions for the experts: 1. why hold time is not frequency depended? 2. will it be reasonable to assume that design that fits timing requirements with 100MHz clock fr...
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8 years ago

1. Hold time is based on the same clock edge, whereas setup time is based on consecutive clock edges. Thus hold time is not frequency dependent, whereas setup time will be.

2. Tricky's answer is correct.