General Description: When performing a behavioral simulation of the CORE Generator Dual Port Block RAM core for Virtex, the RAM outputs are unknown at the start of the simulation. (This is despite the fact that the contents of the RAM are set to valid initial values and all the input signals are at known levels.) When the RAM is exercised (i.e., a read or write is performed), the output seems to display valid data.
Solution
This has been known to happen when the signal feeding the clock port of the RAM is initialized to logic level '1' (first transition is high -> low).
The workaround for this problem is to set the initial value of the clock signal to '0' (so the first transition becomes low -> high).
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AR# 10330
Date
08/23/2002
Status
Archive
Type
General Article
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