WP260 - Memory Interfaces Made Easy with Xilinx FPGAs and the Memory Interface Generator

As FPGA designers strive to achieve higher performance while meeting critical timing margins, the memory interface design is a consistently difficult and time-consuming challenge. Xilinx FPGAs provide I/O blocks and logic resources that make the interface design easier and more reliable. Nonetheless, the I/O blocks, along with extra logic, must be configured, verified, implemented and properly connected to the rest of the FPGA by the designer in the source RTL code, carefully simulated, and then verified in hardware to ensure a reliable memory interface system.