I was experimenting with building large arrays, but after a substantial compilation time there is hardly a tax on logic. It made me wonder where the registers have gone? And ultimately what is wisdom in builing large arrays?
Saltwater wrote: > I was experimenting with building large arrays, but after a substantial > compilation time there is hardly a tax on logic. It made me wonder where > the registers have gone? First read your post as if the heck you don't know anything about your toolchain, your target and your actual problem. To say it short: read it as if you were me (or anybody else on the world). Then answer this question: is it possible to give a senseful anwer? No? Right! Let me just assume you use some kind of HDL and you want to target a FPGA, then it may be that your huge array has no connection to the outer world, and therefore it is just optimized away...
Im using Verilog on a Cyclone V FPGA, "reg [32:0] Array [0:524287];" Referencing the array in the main file. And then pointing to it once, And instance wire module to point from it. To try to try what you said out I made the pointers work, but since im constrained to the pins, I cant output my 33bit array just yet. Assuming it gets optimised out pointing to the register it is pointing to now.. So the result is "296 / 32,070 ( < 1 % )" But.. In general "if it synthesized" correctly would it be feasible to bank on using about 4x (32/24) x 524287 of ram on board? And still getting away with some DSP?
Saltwater wrote: > would it be feasible to bank on using about 4x (32/24) x 524287 of ram > on board? Sounds linke some 20MBits. Does your FPGA have so much RAM inside? Even the biggest Cyclone V seems to have "only" 12MBits... http://www.altera.com/devices/fpga/cyclone-v-fpgas/overview/cyv-overview.html
http://www.altera.com/devices/fpga/cyclone-v-fpgas/overview/cyv-overview.html#table9 I see, it's ~4Mbit for the SE SoC model. It does look great on paper. Ah well maybe later I can dedicate the proper hardware to it. Memory controller it is then..
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