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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Dev board communication over PCI

Can someone explain to me if it's possible for an FPGA development board to actually communicate with the host PC via PCI bus (as opposed to, e.g., USB or ethernet)?
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12 years ago

Sure, but you have to find an evaluation board that has a PCI connector and interface. Most of the newer boards intended for development within a PC use PCI Express (PCIe).

Look at the boards on the Terasic web site for examples;

http://www.terasic.com/

They used to have a Cyclone III PCI board, but I don't see it there anymore. PCI is probably old enough now that its not worth them stocking old hardware.

Did you really want PCI, or did you mean PCIe?

Cheers,

Dave