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13 years ago

Is it possible to write a design over PCIe into Flash?

Hi everyone, I have the following problem: I'm working on a device with a JTAG interface which is only accessable while the device is outside its case. Once it is in its case the JTAG interfa...
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13 years ago

Just connect the PCIe up as an avalon master that can access the flash the same way any other master (eg a nios cpu) would.

And the same way you'd use the PCIe to access any other on-fpga resources.

I'd sort out a sane address map (the default ones are horrid!) so that you can read (and write if necessary) any fpga resources that can easily be assigned (or accessed through) avalon slaves. It'll probably make debugging and diagnosis a lot easier.