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Honored ContributorHow does RAM initialization *physically* work?
I understand how to initialize RAM from a .MIF with the Mega tool, I just don't understand how it works at a transistor level. Does the RAM have a property where it can initialize to a set value on R...
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Honored ContributorDuring the FPGA configuration phase, the FPGA configuration hardware will address and write the relevant data from the configuration bitstream into the RAM blocks.
There's no set/reset signal for the RAM blocks and there's no other storage of the RAM initial values within the FPGA. Even if you use the device wide reset (DEV_CLRn), it will only reset the flip-flops, it won't (can't) reset the RAM block contents.
