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Honored ContributorHi Matthias,
--- Quote Start --- I think the two specs can be ordered for $3100 total. Consider becoming PCI SIG member for a year ($3000), then each spec is $50. I would not recommend visiting some darker areas of the internet that distribute prereleases of the specs. While transporting the main ideas of PCI/PCIe, those documents are different in subtle ways and might lead to more effort in finding out what’s wrong. If you go for a MM interface then, yes, most of the work is already done by Altera. Just ‘choose’ a valid/unique vendor/device ID pair and play with the other parameters a little bit. But if you go for AST or a similar PCIe transaction-level interface, I’m pretty sure you will have a hard time understanding all about credits and transaction completion as well as handling the error interface, MSI/MSI-X, transaction priority, ordering and timeout. These things are all described in the PCIe spec, and Altera just describes the relevant parts of their IP, not the underlying techniques and ideas. --- Quote End --- Excellent advice, thanks! Any other good references on PCIe? How's your experience with the Altera core? Any warnings? Any suggestions for alternative BFMs? Cheers, Dave
