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Altera_Forum
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16 years agoMore M9ks used as expected
Hello, I got a Problem with the RAM (M9k) usage. When I use a sigle Port RAM with 2048 Words a 64bits then I would expect 131072 bits. That is o.k., the Fitter tells me a usage of this 131072 b...
Altera_Forum
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16 years agoThe M9K is structured as a 9 bit wide memory so for your 64 bits wide ram you need it to be 7.111 M9Ks wide which of course you have to round up to 8 and to give you a depth of 2048 you need it to be 2 M9Ks deep which gives you 16 M9Ks.
Basically it isn't just 9K bits that you can arrange however you want.