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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

Cyclone V PCIe Avalon-MM IP missing from Quartus Prime

This seems like a pretty simple question, but I am stumped as to why I do not see the Cyclone V PCIe Avalon-MM IP in Quartus Prime. I have tried Quartus Prime (Standard Edition) versions 17.0, ...
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8 years ago

The PCIe hard IP core is natively Avalon-ST. To get the Avalon-MM interface a soft Avalon-ST to Avalon-MM bridge has to be added, and you can only get that if you instantiate the core in Qsys. If you don't use Qsys you only get to use the native Avalon-ST version.