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18 years ago

how to use cyclone's on-chip-memory?

In my design, I need a 4 ports RAM. The input/output ports are below: module ram(data1,waddress1,data2,waddress2,wena,clk,raddress1,raddress2,rena,q1,q2); input clk,wena,rena; inpu...
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18 years ago

Are the writes to random locations? How do you avoid collisions? If there always to different "sectors" of memory, it might be possible to use an M4K for each sector, and then just mux the address to that sector that is currently using it. (I have no idea what you're doing, so just throwing out suggestions.) Time-multiplexing, if you can meet performance, is the most robust method.