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Altera_Forum
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15 years agoMEV Altera Cyclone IV PCIe Reference Design Kit
Are you struggling to develop a PCI express (PCIe) solution on the Altera Cyclone IV GX? Do you want a simple PCIe slave device? The MEV Altera Cyclone IV PCIe Reference Design Kit includes...
Altera_Forum
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15 years agoSpeaking as someone that has bought and tried this kit, I can happily recommend it. Whilst the Altera videos are good in their way there are many details they cannot cover and having a few simple but fully complete designs to download and play with is very useful. Perhaps best of all are the comments in the source files that advise on matters of a subtle nature that without knowing of them would become show stoppers.
If you need to get into PCIe quickly with Cyclone IV and take advantage of SOPC builder to give you a processor bus (Avalon) interface to your peripherals, this low cost kit could help a lot.