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13 years ago

PC Device communication howto

Hi, I'm a C programmer which is suppose to learn VHDL in 21 days;p. We're developing a device which is connected to 32 bit Atom processor with PCIExpress bus. We have Altera Aria II Gx FPGA. The devi...
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13 years ago

Ok, let's simplify it. Let's say You want to send a packet containing 128 bits trough PCIe, do some calculations on it, and then send it back to microprocessor trough PCIe. Which components will You use? OnChipMemory? DMA? FIFO?