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11 years ago

Controlling TLP attributes ... for PCIe tranasctions

For the Hard or Soft PCIe IP used by Altera, How can I control attributes in the TLP header ie

- RO, IDO, Hint bits, BDF control, AEarlyWrResp control etc.

I hope the answer isn't that I need to write the IP from scratch ....

Thanks in advance, Bob.

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    11 years ago

    Altera factory says to use Avalon-ST instead of Avalon_MM ... any ideas on this ? I believe I need to provide part of the PCIe stack with AVALON-ST which is much more work than I was figuring ... having said that .. if Avalon-ST is the only solution .. I will investigate and size it and make the call.

    Best Regards, Bob.

    PS: I'm attempting to provide some similar functions available in commercial PCIe Exerciser cards at a fraction of the price ... I know they use Altera FPGA's and will be successful if I can simply control the TLP attribute bits say from NIOS II code.