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Altera_Forum
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14 years agoblock ram refers to those prewired asic-like rams available to logic fabric through ports and configrable by user. they are of various graininess.
distributed ram makes use of (some) LUTs of logic fabric as memory instead of implementing them for logic. these are good for multiple small blocks(fine grain). e.g. 3 input LUT can provides 8 1 bit locations.