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Critical Path Continued: Pipeline Principle

A circuit before and after insertion of an additional pipeline stage.

Introducing a pipeline stage increases latency but also the maximum clock frequency.

Pipelining introduces new state but does not require existing state flip-flops to change meaning.


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