My design to big for the FPGA or not?

Jan 03, 2006 2 Replies

When I try to generate a programming file for my FPGA project I get the following error:


ERROR:Place:419 - The design contains 4 BRAM components that are configured as



512x36 BRAMs and 9 multiplier components. The multiplier site adjacent to the

location of a 512x36 BRAM component must remain free because of ressource



sharing. Therefore a device must have at least 13 multiplier sites for this



design to fit. The currently chosen device has only 12 multiplier sites. Phase 1.1 (Checksum:98d993) REAL time: 3 secs


I use XILINX ISE 6.3.03i. Is there a way to make my design fit inside the FPGA without reducing the number of multipliers?


You can make the design fit.

Change your BlockRAMs to use x18 width instead of x36. The multipliers can share the resources with a BlockRAM unless the BlockRAM uses the wide 36-bit bus. Since you're only using 4 BlockRAMs, it would be easy from a resource perspective to use half of 8 BlockRAMs at 18-bit width to give you the same memory sizes you have now. You may be able to reoptimize for 18-bit width and use just 4 of the BlockRAM and avoid the troubles altogether.

Another thought might be to access the BlockRAMs at twice the base clock speed to provide 36-bit operation over 2 18-bit cycles making it look to the system like it's a 36-bit BlockRAM at the normal clock rate. This approach is more complex but often the BlockRAMs aren't pushed to their maximum speed and time-multiplexing produces cleaner resource usage.

Casio wrote:

Thank you very much, it solved my problem. I had a RAM entity that was 50 bits wide and a total of 64 words. Now I split the 50-bit words into 18, 18 and 14 bits.

Thanks :-)

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