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Altera_Forum
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15 years agoCyclone IV GX starter kit, is there a PCIe example?
I've bought a Cyclone IV GX starter kit thinking that it would kickstart my PCIe development. I'm now completely overwhelmed, and I'm hoping someone can point me at a PCIe example that I can just com...
Altera_Forum
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15 years agoI was put in touch with MEV, so I tried their reference design (although you do have to pay £40 or 50 euro). Although there was a problem with their design, they were really helpful and got it sorted straight away, and I was up and running in a morning. They obviously lnow the technology inside out and in their opinion the Megawizard is buggy. Different versions of Quartus are not 'bug compatible' as my old mate tony would say, which is why the Altera design works on some old version of Quartus (but not on the recent stuff).
Quite frankly I'm rather disappointed with Altera, so I've given up on their PCIe reference design.