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Interface Pipelineable

All Known Implementing Classes:
FPDivide, FPDivide, FPPack, toFloat

public interface Pipelineable

A common interface for Logic Cells with a getLatency() method.


Method Summary
 int getLatency()
          Returns the latency of the Cell.
 

Method Detail

getLatency

public int getLatency()
Returns the latency of the Cell.

The latency is the number of cycles from the time that the inputs are used until the time that corresponding results appear on the output. Combinational circuits should return zero.



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