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14 years ago

Which Altera FPGA is best for memory design?

Hi friends, I need some guidance for puchasing a proper FPGA that shall meet my purposes. I would like to implement some memory designs, and do performance and power analysis. Are there anyone exp...
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14 years ago

In FPGAs you use the ready-made memory blocks. You can configure them in variousways.

Designing from scratch applies to ASIC world. The memory blocks of FPGAs can be viewed as little ASICs inside.

You can design memory functionality from FPGA registers but these are not usually wasted for this purpose. Alternatively you can use ALUTs as distributed memory within FPGA