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12 years ago

Simple PCI Driver for Arria V SoC Card, or Stratix IV card?

[sorry if you've read this before - the original thread got messed up somehow] Hi - I alluded to this in a prior post but it's become my principal issue. I want to do simple read/write transac...
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12 years ago

Hi Dave - Ok, I think I get it. If, hypothetically, I wanted to slave the Arria V SoC Card to a PC, I Would get -two- One-Stop cards, plug one into the PC and one into the socket on the Arria V card, and connect them with a cable. Then I would configure the PCI-E block on the FPGA to present an external slave interface (and possibly configure the cards as to which is master and slave), and it should work. Yes? (BTW - the cards list on Amazon for $175 each :-) )

And yes, comparatively speaking, booting LINUX on the SoC Card isn't looking so bad. 8-} I'll checkout RocketBoards.org next. One thing though - if I do boot LINUX on the SoC Card, what stands in for the 'hard disk' (I.e., O/S and file storage)? The SDcard?

Thanks!

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