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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

Yes - the slowest register to register latency determines the max clock.

BUT

Usually, to minimise the register to register delays, you increase the number of pipeline steps through the algorithm, which increases the latency of the algorithm as a whole.