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8 years ago

M20k block configuration

Hi all! I'm new to OpenCL and the FPGA world in general and I'm just starting to grasp how to properly use M20K blocks for parallel accesses. Since I need very many of them over several arrays t...
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8 years ago

Thank you very much!

Since every Block Ram has two physical ports, respectively for R/W, I am in the situation where one of the variables needs to be read and the other one updated, so that the total number of accesses is two.

Merging variables into the same block would have provided a good deal of saving.

I'm disappointed they actually introduced that in the doc. without implementing