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13 years ago

How to identify if your design has a race condition.

I am currently working on a CPU and I managed to make it run an sequence of instructions (All it does is add 1 to a register and then store it into a memory mapped device which controls LEDs on my FP...
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13 years ago

The on-chip memory will run at the frequency of it's clock signal, it can't go any faster than that. You can speed up the system by connecting it to a CPU tightly coupled memory port, but then the block can only be used for either data or instructions, but not both at once.