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16 years ago

Using RAM on Cyclone 3

Hi all, I am using a Cyclone 3 FPGA (EP3C16F256) and I want to use it's RAM. I am not familiar with internal RAM on FPGAs, I was going to write it myself as an array but then I found out that it h...
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16 years ago

Aslong as you follow the general coding guidlines, yes

http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/qts/qts_qii51007.pdf

I dont know anything about verilog, but I know in VHDL Quartus will also let you use arrays of types other than std_logic_vector to infer rams from, including signed/unsigned and integer (thats given a limiting range), and fixed point types in the new IEEE floatfixlib.