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11 years ago

PCI Express help

Hi, We have a Bittware PCIe card with a Stratix V FPGA. What is the best way to get started using this board to communicate with other devices on the PC via PCIe? I have looking looking at "...
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11 years ago

Hi, and thanks for the replies.

The name of the board is S5-PCIe-HQ.

I am attempting the example on the PDF on how to create the PCIe end-point using Quartus 14.0 and on Ubuntu 12.04.

I am having problems when it comes to adding the ALTPLL and other components as the MegaWizard plug-in manager does not exist on 14.0 it seems. I have read that it is replaced by Ip Catalog , but when I try to use that , it does nothing. Any suggestions?

How exactly does the Avalon MM Base Address Registers work. I am trying to fully understand. For example, to get the board to access my computer's RAM via PCIe, must I put the RAM address there? or If I wish to talk to another PCIe device on my computer, how does it work?

Thanks again for your help.