hi all, I'm new to all fpga implementation from ipcore. I have read the tutorial from openrisk for xilinx target. I have a question about the ram block. In the tutorial you mantion that we need to use the core gen to benerate the block of ram. In the webpack edition of xilinx, we don't have this feature. I would like to know how can i bypass this ? this is suppose to run on a spartant 3 regards jonathan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.opencores.org/forums/openrisc/attachments/20040909/8647a4d9/attachment.htm

hi Jonathan,

you can use ram primitive directly from xilinx lib,
such as ramb16_s4.
instance each ram by using this method.

zhustudio


Jonathan Dumaresq wrote:

ok . I would like to know if you have any suggestion for book to starting with fpga. I have read the xilinx fpga handbook but now i would like to go deeper in fpga. regards Jonathan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Damjan Lampret" damjanl@opencores.org> To: "List about OpenRISC project" openrisc@opencores.org> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 9:27 PM Subject: Re: [openrisc] webpack and openrisk ?
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I'm not familiar with Spartan3 but Virtex rams are supported and I think the tools can also use them in case of Virtex2 so I'm concluding it might work for Spartan3 as well. But in case you have problems, just instantiate Spartan3 rams instead of Virtex rams. When you learn you will understand this is trivial modification. regards, Damjan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Dumaresq" jdumaresq@cimeq.qc.ca> To: openrisc@opencores.org> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 4:45 PM Subject: [openrisc] webpack and openrisk ? hi all, I'm new to all fpga implementation from ipcore. I have read the tutorial from openrisk for xilinx target. I have a question about the ram block. In the tutorial you mantion that we need to use the core gen to benerate the block of ram. In the webpack edition of xilinx, we don't have this feature. I would like to know how can i bypass this ? this is suppose to run on a spartant 3 regards jonathan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------