VHDL ring buffer FIFO in block RAM
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This VHDL implementation of a ring buffer FIFO has generic data width and depth settings.
Description
The ring_buffer.vhd module implements a FIFO in block RAM. The width and depth of the circular buffer are configurable through generics. In addition to the read and write ports, the entity contains empty/full flags and a fill_count integer output. These are for flow control.
Entity
entity ring_buffer is
generic (
RAM_WIDTH : natural;
RAM_DEPTH : natural
);
port (
clk : in std_logic;
rst : in std_logic;
-- Write port
wr_en : in std_logic;
wr_data : in std_logic_vector(RAM_WIDTH - 1 downto 0);
-- Read port
rd_en : in std_logic;
rd_valid : out std_logic;
rd_data : out std_logic_vector(RAM_WIDTH - 1 downto 0);
-- Flags
empty : out std_logic;
empty_next : out std_logic;
full : out std_logic;
full_next : out std_logic;
-- The number of elements in the FIFO
fill_count : out integer range RAM_DEPTH - 1 downto 0
);
end ring_buffer;
Main article
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How to create a ring buffer FIFO in VHDL
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