FIR II IP Intel® FPGA IP: User Guide

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Date 4/15/2024
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3.5.1. Memory and Multiplier Trade-Offs

When the Quartus Prime software synthesizes your design to logic, it often creates delay blocks. The FIR II IP tries to balance the implementation between logic elements (LEs) and RAM blocks. The exact trade-off depends on the target FPGA family, but generally the trade-off attempts to minimize the absolute silicon area used. For example, if a RAM block occupies the silicon area of two logic array blocks (LABs), a delay requiring more than 20 LEs (two LABs) is implemented as a RAM block. However, you want to influence this trade-off.