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16 years ago

Reordering Data

Hi All, I'm at an early stage in a new project - I have a data stream from multiple sensors arriving into my FPGA and I want to re-order the data over a certain number of words before re-transmitt...
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16 years ago

Your plan is ok. This is commonly done with data interleaving.

You write continuously(address goes up regularly) into one of two memories. you read from the other memory as per reordering address. You need some care at switching between the two pipes.

think of your switch as two states:

write to mem1, read mem2

write to mem2, read mem1