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Honored ContributorCyclone IV GX FPGA Development board not recognised by PC when in PCIe slot
Just received a Cyclone IV GX FPGA Development kit and downloaded the demo c4gx_PCIe_gen1_x1.sof to it but when the PC boots up id does not recognise the board. I am unable to install a driver for it...
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Honored Contributor --- Quote Start --- The card works in a Dell Windows 7 pc --- Quote End --- Great, progress! --- Quote Start --- but cannot be installed due to not finding the drivers. The card also works in an XP pc but again no driver can be found. The example demo has a dev id of 0004 in the inf file but the dev id set on the PCI card is E001. Oddly the filename for the inf file is altpcie_perf_demo_e001.inf. Anyone experienced this problem and know of the correct file to use? I tried changing the Dev ID in the file from 0004 to e001 this started to work in the sense it found the driver but then failed to load. --- Quote End --- Do you have to use Windows? Under Linux you can access PCIe devices directly, which is often sufficient to "check things out" and then you can deal with software issues later, eg., you can perform your hardware tests under Linux, even though eventually you may deploy under Windows. Cheers, Dave
