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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 two address ports going into both RAMs. In simple dual-port, one can read and the other can write. In true dual-port, they can both read and write. I'm surprised it needs true dual-port, but don't know what it's doing. (Note that if the true dual-port needs a single write address and two reads, this can effectively be done by using two simple dual-port RAMs. This may not be easy to do via DSP builder though.)