1.7.10. Implementing Clock Enable for On-Chip Memories

Quartus® Prime Pro Edition User Guide: Partial Reconfiguration

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1.7.10. Implementing Clock Enable for On-Chip Memories

Follow these guidelines to implement clock enable for on-chip memories:

To avoid spurious writes during PR programming for memories, implement the clock enable circuit in the same PR region as the M20K or MLAB RAM. This circuit depends on an active-high clear signal from the static region.
Before you begin the PR programming, assert this signal to disable the memory’s clock enable. Your system PR controller must deassert the clear signal on PR programming completion. You can use the freeze signal for this purpose.
Use the Quartus® Prime IP Catalog or Platform Designer to instantiate the On-Chip Memory and RAM Intel® FPGA IP cores that include an option to automatically add this circuitry.
Note: If you turn on the Implement clock-enable circuitry for use in a partial reconfiguration region option when parameterizing RAM Intel FPGA IP from the IP catalog, the Quartus® Prime software adds a freeze port to the RAM IP for use in the PR region.

Figure 31. Clock-Enable Circuitry Option in RAM 1 Port Intel FPGA IP Parameter Editor

Figure 32. RAM Clock Enable Circuit for PR Region

Verilog RTL for Clock Enable

module mem_enable_verilog (
        input clock,      
        input freeze,
        input clken_in, 
        output wire ram_wrclocken
);
   reg ce_reg;
    reg [1:0] ce_delay;

    always @(posedge clock, posedge freeze) begin
        if (freeze) begin
            ce_delay <= 2'b0;
        end
        else begin
            ce_delay <= {ce_delay[0], 1'b1};
        end
    end

    always @(posedge clock, negedge ce_delay[1]) begin
        if (~ce_delay[1]) begin
            ce_reg <= 1'b0;
        end
        else begin
            ce_reg <= clken_in;
        end
    end

    assign ram_wrclocken = ce_reg;
endmodule

VHDL RTL for Clock Enable

ENTITY mem_enable_vhd IS PORT(
        clock      : in  std_logic;
        freeze  : in  std_logic;
		clken_in : in std_logic;
        ram_wrclocken : out std_logic);
END mem_enable_vhd;

ARCHITECTURE behave OF mem_enable_vhd is
	SIGNAL ce_reg: std_logic;
	SIGNAL ce_delay: std_logic_vector(1 downto 0);
BEGIN
PROCESS (clock, freeze)
BEGIN
	IF ((clock'EVENT AND clock = '1') or (freeze'EVENT AND freeze = '1')) THEN
		IF (freeze = '1') THEN
			ce_delay <= "00";
		ELSE
			ce_delay <= ce_delay(0) & '1';
		END IF;
	END IF;
	
END PROCESS;

PROCESS (clock, ce_delay(1))
BEGIN
	IF ((clock'EVENT AND clock = '1') or (ce_delay(1)'EVENT AND ce_delay(1) = '0')) THEN
		IF (ce_delay(1) = '0') THEN
			ce_reg <= '0';
		ELSE
			ce_reg <= clken_in;
		END IF;
	END IF;
	
END PROCESS;

ram_wrclocken <= ce_reg;

END ARCHITECTURE behave;

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1.7.10. Implementing Clock Enable for On-Chip Memories

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