3.4.3.4. Latency Calculator
The latency calculator gives you an approximate indication of the latency of your Viterbi decoder.
Latency is the number of clock cycles it takes the decoder to process r the data and output it. Latency is from the first symbol to enter the IP core (sink_sop) up to the first symbol to leave (source_sop). The latency depends on the parameters. For the precise latency, perform simulation. The latency calculator uses the following formula for the hybrid architecture:
Number of clock cycles = Z × V
where:
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- V is the traceback length value that is in the input tb_length
- Z = 10, if log2C = 3
- Z = 2log2C, if log2C > 3
- log2C = L MAX – 2 – log2A, where A is ACS units
For the parallel architecture the number of clock cycles is approximately 4V.