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Honored ContributorClearing asyncram contents
Just wanted to verify the following:
Does the Aclr pin only clear the input and output registers on the component, and leave the contents of the memory in tact? Was just wondering about this before I go ahead and write a loop of reset code to write a 0 value to every address. The Aclr would be an easy way of clearing the memory, but I don't think that is it's intent. Can someone please verify this for me?3 Replies
Altera_Forumthe ram contents are not cleared
only output registers/latches (not input registers) are cleared in most recent families see page 31: http://www.altera.com/literature/ug/ug_ram_rom.pdf- Altera_Forum
As far as I know, the aclr clears the registers (inputs/outputs/address)
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Yeah, that's what I thought. So the only way to clear the RAM during runtime is to actually run a loop through all the addresses and write 0's to all of them.
Ok. Thanks for the verification.
