-- A simple pre-initalized RAM, which reads from a binary file at synthesis time -- single 32 bit read/write port. library ieee; use ieee.std_logic_1164.all; use ieee.numeric_std.all; entity simple_ram is generic ( -- 32-bit read/write port. ADDR_WIDTH is in bytes, not words. ADDR_WIDTH : integer := 15 -- default 32k ); port ( clk : in std_logic; en : in std_logic; raddr : in std_logic_vector(ADDR_WIDTH - 3 downto 0); do : out std_logic_vector(31 downto 0); we : in std_logic_vector(3 downto 0); waddr : in std_logic_vector(ADDR_WIDTH - 3 downto 0); di : in std_logic_vector(31 downto 0) ); end simple_ram; architecture behavioral of simple_ram is constant NUM_WORDS : integer := 2**(ADDR_WIDTH - 2); type ram_type is array (0 to NUM_WORDS-1) of std_logic_vector(31 downto 0); impure function load_binary(filename : string) return ram_type is type binary_file is file of character; file f : binary_file; variable c : character; variable mem : ram_type; begin file_open(f, filename, read_mode); for i in ram_type'range loop mem(i) := (others => '0'); -- read 4 bytes and store in big endian order for bi in 3 downto 0 loop if not endfile(f) then read(f, c); mem(i)((bi+1)*8 - 1 downto bi*8) := std_logic_vector(to_unsigned(character'pos(c), 8)); end if; end loop; end loop; file_close(f); return mem; end; signal ram : ram_type := load_binary("ram.img"); begin process (clk) variable read : std_logic_vector(31 downto 0); begin if clk'event and clk = '1' and en = '1' then if we(3) = '1' then ram(to_integer(unsigned(waddr)))(31 downto 24) <= di(31 downto 24); end if; if we(2) = '1' then ram(to_integer(unsigned(waddr)))(23 downto 16) <= di(23 downto 16); end if; if we(1) = '1' then ram(to_integer(unsigned(waddr)))(15 downto 8 ) <= di(15 downto 8 ); end if; if we(0) = '1' then ram(to_integer(unsigned(waddr)))(7 downto 0 ) <= di(7 downto 0 ); end if; read := ram(to_integer(unsigned(raddr))); do <= read; end if; end process; end behavioral;