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13 years ago

What is best to do to test a custom circuit with large amount of data?

Hi everyone, I have implemented a electron-beam data decompression circuit in verilog-hdl. I need to run it and benchmark it with large amount of data (over 200 mega-bytes). I don't have any no...
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13 years ago

If you have a DE4, why not plug it into a PCIe slot and use the PCIe bus for data transfers?

The University Program has a document explaining how to setup the DE4 for use with PCIe (I have not used this document though);

ftp://ftp.altera.com/up/pub/altera_material/13.0/tutorials/

Cheers,

Dave