Question Regarding Look-Up Tables and Access Time/Levels of Logic

Feb 09, 2007 3 Replies

Is there a standard used for look-up table access time in terms of levels of logic? As an example, if I have a 2^8 x 8 look-up table (8- bit to 8-bit), how many levels of logic are required to perform the look-up operation or is the table considered to be just one level of SRAM?



Thanks!



Adam



Peter,

I don't want to build the LUT out of 4 and 5 input LUTs :) I would agree about using the BlockRAM, I guess I was looking for a more generic statement of the form "if you have a 2^n x m LUT (in my case

2^8 x 8), you can expect the access time to be f(n,m) levels of logic" regardless of technology/use of BlockRAM. The real question becomes what is f(n,m), ie can I say something like for a 2^8 x 8 LUT it will be log_2_(2^8) = 8 levels of logic or something like that?

Thanks again!

Adam

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