how to increase the depth of dcfifo more than 131000 words ?

[Altera_Forum]

Hi, 

 Does anyone know how to increase the depth of dcfifo to more than 131000 words ? The maximum selectable from Megacore is 131,000 something...  connecting two of these together?  regards, Michael

[Altera_Forum]

Why do You need such a big FIFO? This is maximum available. Either do Your own FIFO using RAM or use external FIFO chip.

[Altera_Forum]

Connecting a DCFIFO and a SCFIFO back-to-back is very easy. This would allow you to double the size. 

 I'm not sure whether 'directly' instantiating the fifo in your code (use the MegaWizard generated code to see how to do this) would allow any size fifo, but the .pdf doc looks like this would work ok.

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  Why do You need such a big FIFO? This is maximum available. Either do Your own FIFO using RAM or use external FIFO chip.  --- Quote End ---     To keep a large chunk of data given from ADC, generally i want a FIFO to be as big as possible. now i want to build a DCFIFO based on SRAM(2MB). Any ideas how?  Thank you.  regards, Michael

[Altera_Forum]

Write to Your FIFO and count words. Remember the last address You've written and begin read from there backwards. Simple as that :)

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  Write to Your FIFO and count words. Remember the last address You've written and begin read from there backwards. Simple as that :)  --- Quote End ---    Isn't that a LiFo (last in, first out) then?

[Altera_Forum]

My bad, begin from the place You've started writing :)

[Altera_Forum]

Using up all the on chip RAM when you have external RAM seems like a waste of resources. Just build an ADC interface that supports Avalon-ST, hook it up to a clock crossing FIFO if need, then hook up the FIFO/ADC to a DMA and push it into memory. Also long as you have enough memory bandwidth and you feed the DMA descriptors fast enough you should never drop samples.