How to create a *.mif (Memory Initialization File) from a picture (*.bmp)

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Hello  

 I' am trying to make a *.mif (memory initialization file) from a picture(gray scale) and initialize it with memory i have create in fpga. The memory is   reg [7:0] ram[76799:0] // 320X240 My question is how to create the file an how to initialize it with ram?  Thank you A.A

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The mif format is explained in Quartus Help when you look up "mif". It's a rather simple format and you can probably write a script or small software on your PC that reads the bmp file and writes the contents to a text file to generate the mif. Alternatively you can use a hex conversion program such as srecord (http://srecord.sourceforge.net/) that knows how to export to the MIF format.

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I create the mif file from Quartus. 

How to connect it with verilog and initial memory ?

[Altera_Forum]

The easiest way is to use the megawizard to create a ROM/RAM block. Then you can specify the .mif file to use for the block contents.