FPGA on-board memory studies and performance analysis : article / Muhamad Aiman Muhamad Aznan

This paper present Field Programmable Gates Array (FPGA) on-board memory studies and performance analysis by designing a controller of memory using Verilog code. Inside this type of FPGA board, there are three types of on-chips memory available that is SRAM, SD RAM and FLASH memory. The memories have its own capability and function. The purpose of this study is to determine the performance for each types of
memory in term of its area and power. This study is expected to help students in the future to fully understand on board memory. This study achieved by design controller using Verilog code on FPGA board and test the output through seven segment displays. Quartus tools as a software to compile Verilog code. Then, Timing Analyrer and Power Tools used to obtain the area and power consumption. From the analysis, SDRAM has maximum area with 89 logics then follow by SRAM with 88 logic and last is flash with 83 logics. For power consumption, SD RAM is lower follow with flash then SRAM is higher power consumption. All the memory successfully obtained its performance as expected.