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12 years ago

PCIe IP - Boot issue in PC?

Hi all, We are using PCIe IP in one of our FPGA PCIe cards. We created a new project in Quartus and placed a PCIe IP component. It gave some default settings for the PCIe Vendor ID ...
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12 years ago

If the IDs were set to some value that represented a known-device that the BIOS is supposed to configure, eg., a PCIe-to-PCIe bridge, then the BIOS will try to set it up ...

However, I think its more likely that you have a PCIe BAR in your example design that is too big. If you have a BAR that is 1GB or 2GB in size, and your PC is 32-bits, there's a pretty good chance it will not boot. Make sure your BARs are small, i.e., no bigger than say 1MB (at least to start with).

Cheers,

Dave