Reply by Brian Drummond●January 28, 20092009-01-28
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:17:41 -0800 (PST), jleslie48
<jon@jonathanleslie.com> wrote:
>On Jan 27, 7:08�pm, Brian Drummond <brian_drumm...@btconnect.com>
>wrote:
>~Seriously; if you can treat this "bbfifo.vhd" as a black box, go
>ahead
>~ and use it.
>
>you're the second person today to tell me that. That's actually a bit
>of a
>comfort. So any throttling of the 16 bit buffer will have to be done
>outside of
>the bbfifo.vhd. I can live with that.
That's what the "half full" and "full" flags are for:
if it's full, stop writing!
If you need a bigger FIFO, or one with different features, (e.g. 16 bits
in, 8 bits out) fire up Coregen and you'll have one in a few minutes,
with a template to help you use it.
Good luck
- Brian