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18 years ago

Using GXB for PCIe 2.0 (Gen 2)

I'm looking for examples of using the dynamic reconfiguration of the GXB's in Stratix II GX to switch from 2.5Gbps PCIe 1.0 mode to 5.0Gbps PCIe 2.0 mode. Has anyone done this and are you willing to ...
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13 years ago

Hi ckeefer,

I would like to build my own PCIe gen2 Phy for a Stratix II GX but I'm not making much progress with the alt2gxb configuration.

Altera just seems to supports gen 1 within the configurator, but you wrote that you have a solution for gen2 that trains the link.

Can you or anyone here give some hints how to configure the alt2gxb to support gen2 ?

Thanks

Martin