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Rodo
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4 years ago

MAX10, on-board RAM or ROM: What does memory initialization do?

Hi all, I'm playing with a BeMicroMAX10 that I've had for a while. Last time I used it was in Quartus web (free) v15, now using v21.1.0 (also free). I was getting an error at compile with error i...
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sstrell
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4 years ago

It's an FPGA, so you can program the contents of memories with whatever values you want when you program the device. You need to associate a .hex or a .mif file with a particular memory for this to work, and you can do that in the IP parameter editor for the memory or with a synthesis attribute in your HDL code.

If you don't have a .hex or .mif file, make sure you disable memory initialization in the parameter editor.