11 Dec
2003
11 Dec
'03
5:55 a.m.
Peter Wallace wrote:
No thats not bad, especially if you use SDRAM, which
would be fast enough
if a small FIFO is used to smooth out the page crossing delays
The slowest SDRAM you can buy now is fast enough that page crossings
are not a problem. You could actually completely avoid use of page
mode, in which case the data rate from the SDRAM is constant.
However, since FPGAs give you small FIFOs at zero incremental cost,
there's no reason to try to avoid them.
Of course, some people don't want to use FPGAs.