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15 years ago

PCIe on a Cyclone II?

I'm looking at building a mini-PCIe card containing an FPGA, and the Cyclone II caught my eye on the PCIe Integrators List (it's the first link on Google for those terms; I can't link to it because I...
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15 years ago

Right, thanks for that. Looks like the Cyclone II still isn't going to work for me then. I've thought about getting the XIO1100 and attempting to solder that with a heat gun (there are a few guides around on soldering BGA at home) - but it's a big risk to take. I have just found that the XIO2001 can manage 266MB/s throughput (32-bit, 66MHz PCI) so I won't actually lose any bandwidth compared to PCIe. It's still going to take up a lot of the PCB space and a lot of I/O pins on the FPGA, but it's a bit closer to what I was after.