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13 years ago

How to force internal RAM usage in Quartus

I have a DE2-70 dev kit and would like to set up a couple of internal RAM 2D bit arrays. I will NOT be using SOPC/Qsys but would like to access these in Verilog. I have looked up the correct way to b...
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13 years ago

Thank you for your reply. A quick question for you. Should the compilation report show that memory bits are used? If so, there is no indication that RAM is being allocated for anything. Also I have tried using this approach:

(* ramstyle = "M4K" *) reg [7:0] current [7:0];

to allocate a 64 bit array in RAM. No indication that has been successful either. Perhaps I need to use the megafunction wizard?

Thanks for your assistance.

Regards,

Geof