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Alexander_Kobler
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5 years ago
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Gated clock conversion fails due to memory

Hello Intel community, We use "set_global_assignment -name SYNTH_GATED_CLOCK_CONVERSION ON" for our prototyping system, which contains several memories (RAM, ROM). Up to now, this worked as expecte...
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    Alexander_Kobler
    5 years ago

    Hi,

    Thanks for pointing out these attributes, but unfortunately they do not seem to have an impact on clock gate conversion (CGC)

    But I've found a solution: instead of using a single write enable (WE) for a 13 bit data word, I've used a WE for each 8 bit data slice. This seems to help the compiler to find a RAM block which is suitable for CGC

    Instead of:

      wire s_wen;
  assign s_wen = (~CEN) ? WEN : 1'b1;

    Changed to:

    wire [1:0] s_wen;
assign s_wen = {2 {(~CEN) ? WEN : 1'b1}};

    See also attached files.

    Regards

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Ash_R_Altera
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5 years ago

Hi,

The tool might be placing the low density memory in the LAB elements instead of the RAM blocks.


Regards.


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Alexander_Kobler
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5 years ago

Hi,

Is it possible to prohibit the tool from using LAB memory, at least for certain instances?

Regards