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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Is the speed determined by fmax or delays?

Hi everyone, This may seem stupid but I can't get a direct answer from my professors on this question. One of them says its the fmax while one of them says its the delays. Anybody mi...
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16 years ago

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Well then thats max clock speed. The faster the clock, the more calculations it can do in a second. The latency wont matter, because it will still be doing 1 calc/clock tick, it will just take longer before Input1 becomes output1.

Normally, the higher the latency, the higher the max clock.

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Thanks for your reply again! But don't you mean the lower the latency, the higher the max clock?

Cheers,

Chris