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13 years ago

PCIe on Stratix IV

Hello, I am an altera newbie and am currently working on getting the PCIe system running on DE4.The version of quartus I am using is 10.0 and the SOPC builder fails every time I try to build th...
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13 years ago

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Unfortunately it will be some time till another machine is available

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That is ok, method (A) should work fine. You could at least try it :)

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so I need to try and flash the board with the bit stream.

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This should also work fine. The only caveat is that the DE4 must configure within whatever time it takes for your PC's BIOS to start enumerating the PCIe bus, i.e., within 100ms.

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ave you tried with flashing the board and configuring it from Flash.There are quite a few ways which have been given in the Board User manual but I didnt find them clear and generic. Would you have any pointers on where to start.

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I'd start with the user manual. If you get stuck, let me know, and I'll look at the user manual, I have it downloaded, but don't have time to look at it right now.

Cheers,

Dave