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16 years ago

howto use LEs insted of M9K?

Hi, I'm using a UART 16550 core from opencores in the SOPC builder, works very fine. It has build-in rx/tx FIFO, 16 Byte each. Quartus II uses a whole M9K-Block, which means a lot of wasted RAM. M...
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16 years ago

If you use the megawizard to instantiate a ram, rather than inferring it, there is a tick box which allows to choose LEs or M9Ks.