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12 years ago

Why it wants mofr M9K blocks

Cyclone 3 - device has 66 M9K blocks. I set up 16384x36 memory chunk. It is 589824 bits, with device having 608256 bits. However quartus says it is too much, and says device needs to have 72 blo...
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12 years ago

It should be possible to build that memory using 64 M9K blocks and some logic elements as well. This memory will be spread across the entire chip so do you really need such a large memory?

Are you sure that memory is the only one in your design? If you include IP or large lookup tables they could also be consuming on-chip memory resources.