PCIe BFM for Quartus 12.0

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Its Altera's FTP site, but for some reason they do not provide direct links to it. The site still has the 11.0 downloads.

ftp://ftp.altera.com/outgoing/release/

Cheers,

Dave

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Does anyone here, say with access to large amounts of storage for analysing captured data, and possibly called Dave, want to back all that up in case Altera worry any more about their business and remove it?

:lol:

Nial

Hi Nial,

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Does anyone here, say with access to large amounts of storage for analysing captured data, and possibly called Dave, want to back all that up in case Altera worry any more about their business and remove it?

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Its actually the network download that is more of a pain :)

I've taken to downloading both Windows and Linux installations for each new release. In hindsight, this was very useful, given that the PCIe BFM disappeared past 11.0.

Has anyone tried the Tarek BFMs? Any feedback on how nicely the code is written and how user-friendly they find the BFMs? Are they SystemVerilog UVM/OVM/VMM (or whatever three letter acronym is the latest class library)? Do they have VHDL BFMs? Modelsim-ASE is single-language only, so is Modelsim-SE a requirement?

I don't see any comments regarding Altera PCIe interfacing on Tarek's web site. Its not clear whether you have to implement the PCIe interface using only the SERDES, or can use the much-faster-for-simulation PCIe PIPE interface (the other 100+ ports on the PCIe component).

Cheers,

Dave

Thanks everyone for all your help!!!

I was able to get Quartus v11.0 and my simulation is now running.

Hello, not 100% sure, but PCIe Root Port BFM could be available at 12.0sp1 (July).

Domen

Does anyone create own test program for verification PCIe Endpoint, modified altpcietb_bfm_driver.v with own value (addr, data)?

Thanks, Domen