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15 years ago

PCI-Express Reference Design on Cyclone IV GX Transceiver Starter Kit

Hi, I am looking for a simple PCI-e reference solution on Cyclone4 GX. If I'm not wrong, so far all the demo design are done on the Stratix IV GX and Arria II GX developement board. Que...
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15 years ago

There is a PCIe master mode example there which is based on the PCI express wizard generated example code and not an SOPC. The example is based on a PCI express complier version < 10.1 and the serdes fixed clock is derived from the PCI Ref Clock, which is not recommended in Altera PCI express Compier user guide. I am not sure if this may cause issues.

Ours is a simple PCIe slave on the SOPC so it is easy to reconfigure to suit user designs built in Quartus 10.1