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13 years ago

Reading data from a ROM

I have created a ROM-1port via the MegaWizard which also has a .mif file and in my top level entity I have to instantiate that rom, but I don't know how to access the data from it. My .mif file...
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13 years ago

I'm trying to create a code that can show the VHDL firmware version, like everytime someone changes a firmware, the version changes, and that version number is in a txt file, so the VHDL code I am trying to make, it reads those numbers and everytime the code is compiled it contains the new firmware version.

So in order for me to do that, I figured I would use a ROM to hold that information in the FPGA.