Hi everyone,
For some or other reason if you compile something enough it either breaks itself or fixes itself :) I can now run the Processor and SDRAM at 50MHz while still having a 40MHz clock for the VGA VHDL. AND the software works too :) I would love to run the CPU and SDRAM at even higher frequencies (like 80MHz or even 100MHz) but as soon as I try to access the SRAM at frequencies above 50MHz it fails to respond ( I doubt that the 40MHz clock has anything to do with this but you (well I) never know.) . Is this normal?
As far as I could gather the SRAM should be able to work at frequencies up to 100MHz as the access time is 10ns. On the cyclone dev board the SRAM modules are IDT71V416 S
10PH Z0051P which gives an access time of 10ns – if I understood the datasheet correctly :)
I know this question should probably start a new thread but: Is there a reason why the SRAM would stop responding at higher frequencies? The SDRAM
seems to work fine at frequencies up to about 100MHz – which would be explained by it being PC100 compatible SDRAM.
Any SRAM expert out there?