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10 years ago

Cyclone 3 - configure M9K in 8-bit mode?

Hello, probably question which was asked not once before, but I can not find instant answer. I have 32KBytes of the RAM configured using M9K blocks, 8 bit data bus width. If I configure it by d...
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10 years ago

No, if you really need to use all the bits you will need to add an external module to map them, but as you say it will probably induce a timing overhead.