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16 years ago

More 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...
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16 years ago

The documentation that I saw actually uses 9 bits per byte so the 64 bit words actually use 72 bits, therefore using bits to calculate block usage does not work. An M9k holds 256 x 32 or 256 x 36 for example.