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11 years ago

Effect of ROM port width of LE usage?

I created a single port ROM with a port width of 237 bits to meet my application need. However this seemed to cause the usage of around 15,000 additional logic elements. I don't think it's storing th...
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11 years ago

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what if you try a small rom and instantiate it as many as you like then connect the 273 bits manually, all with same address. I don't see if it will need any extra logic

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I guess my only problem with this is it will make creating the instantiation files kind of a pain, since I have to split up data that is logically contiguous into 15 or 20 files to get the width down to 16 bits.