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12 years ago

Quartus sythesizes double the on-chip memory bits

Hello, I'm testing out how to code and simulate the on-chip memory usage, which is working well. However I've noticed in the Flow Summary window after compiling, it's using double the memory ...
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12 years ago

One address bit can be used to select (2) values.

If what you really want is zero address bits, with only 16 bits of storage, then why do you want to use a RAM at all and why not just use a register?