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17 years ago

CRC_ERROR and memory parity bits in new FPGAs

Hello, It appears that the CRC_ERROR and memory parity bits features have been introduced by Altera in the Stratix family (Cyclone too) and aren't available in older devices. Is this correct ? ...
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17 years ago

What do you mean with memory parity? The fact that the RAM modules now feature 9k bits instead of 4k? This is not necessarily a parity bit, thus, a reliability feature. You can use this bit for whatever you want.