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14 years ago

Unused addresses in embedded memory block ? are they lost ?

Hello ! I could not find the answer of this question in documentation : If I need to implement many FIFOs, 32 bits width, 128 bits depth. I am using stratix III FPGAs. An embedded M9...
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14 years ago

Ive never seen quartus do that automatically. I would think you would have to do that youself by instantiating the rams via the megawizard (or manually) and then connecting them as you say.

But this is all about sorting out optimal utilisation yourself.

What quartus can do though is group together memories that share the same address bus. Then it will pack them into the same physical M9k.