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15 years ago

Can FPGA be directly interfaced with external storage drives?

Hi, I am wondering if its possible to implement a PCIe root IP in FPGA and use it to save streaming data into an off-chip high-speed storage device, such as SSD? Does PCIe controller handle co...
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15 years ago

There are a few third party SATA and firewire IPs (see here (http://www.altera.com/products/ip/ip-index.jsp) for a list of all official IP cores), but the main problem could be OS support. The IP provider should be able to give more information about which OS can be used with their IP.

There are also several Ethernet cores, but I don't know if any OS available for Nios is able to handle iSCSI or FCoE.