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10 years ago

LE and memory blocks in a cyclone

Hello, I'm quite new in the world of the FPGA, indeed, I'm an engineer student in end-of-studies internship which is about using a FPGA. Well, I'm telling you that because I guess that you wi...
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10 years ago

LEs can be used as memory, but they are far less dense than ram. So you can quickly lose all your LEs to larger rams that have timing issues. LE rams are meant for small high speed applications.