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18 years ago

FIFO or 2-Port RAM

First I wanted to use a 2-Port RAM to synchronize two clock domains 96MHz <--> 24MHz until I found the FIFO megafunction. The FIFO has the advantage for me that I don't have to control the address bu...
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18 years ago

The FIFO can only be used for streams to compense various read and write speeds. Depending on your app, you may want to read several pieces of information more than once (while it had been written only once) or want a read out data order different from the order, the data appears.