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PElm
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7 years ago

Automatic use of internal block RAMs

I'm translating code from Xilinx devices to Intel to see if we could switch to Altera FPGAs. Xilinx tools automatically translate VHDL memory operations to block-ram without need to use macros or co...
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corestar
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7 years ago

If you right-click in a VHDL windows, there is an "Insert Template" option that can be useful. There is a ROM example.

I've used the memory initialization and it works within limits. The templates use functions.

Just a side note, for VHDL 2008, instead of:

'1'&x"12"

you could use:

9x"112" 
 
or 
 
9x"1_12"