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Altera_Forum
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17 years agoStratix II and M4K true dual port memory
Hello, I'm using DSP Builder to create 256 true DPRAM (Dual Port Rams) with size 64x10bits. Compilation process places each of them in a single M4K block and I'm very quick out of memory. Is th...
Altera_Forum
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17 years agoThere are only two addresses on each RAM, so only a single dual-port is possible. Depending on your clock frequency, you could time-share these resources, i.e. run a 2x clock to them and toggle back and forth between them. Might require some extra pipelining, but usually not a big deal with DSP resources. I don't know if there's a way to do that directly in DSP Builder though(which is probably a problem if the M4Ks come out of larger functions). Are you using the M512s too?