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16 years ago

Which fpga/cpld to use?

Hi everyone, I currently have an industrial PC which only has PCI slots (not PCI Express). At the moment we have an existing interface board which takes in some fibre optic signals and transfer...
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16 years ago

You would most likely need to design your own PCI board with respective external interfaces on board. Existing Altera or third party PCI Dev Kits can help in evaluating the design, e.g.:

http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-pci-2c35.html

http://www.cepd.com/altera/cyclone3pci.htm

http://pci.terasic.com/

For basic a PCI interface, also a MAX II can be sufficient:

http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-maxii-1270.html