PCI Card design

PCI Card design

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mystery

Joined: 09 May 2001
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24 Jul 2003 7:32 PCI Card design

Hi all

Which one do you advise for developing PCI Card?
1-)whether to use Xilinx Spartan-II family and deal with PCI target core?
2-) or to use a PCI ready chip like QuickLogic's QL5130 chip?

thanks

elektrom

Joined: 02 Jul 2001
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28 Aug 2003 5:07

If you want to add more logic to interface with any other component, I suggest to try
- Xilinx FPGA
- VHDL PCI core from lattice.

Integrated

Joined: 10 Jul 2003
Posts: 24

28 Aug 2003 8:05

A question, what about PCI bridge?

copyleft

Joined: 11 Apr 2003
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02 Sep 2003 18:17

maybe you can request an evaluation version PCI core from Xilinx for your design.

cd505

Joined: 26 Dec 2001
Posts: 25

03 Sep 2003 3:41

use plx + fpga

it_boy

Joined: 18 Jul 2002
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03 Sep 2003 6:21

Instead of spending on standard chips and a CPLD/FPGA for glue logic on the board, it is advisable to use an FPGA for both together.

What frequency are you planning to the PCI at?
Is your requirirement is a Target only, you can easily fit it into a Spartan-II family FPGA. You might have to struggle a bit to acheive 66MHz if it is required.

tom_hanks

Joined: 28 Aug 2003
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03 Sep 2003 6:30

hi there,

1) if you are trying to use IP core then @ltera cyclone deivce can be cheap and best option...
or
PLX9054+Spartan for heavy glue logic between PCI and other side of FPGA...

2) For PCI bridge (Host bridge, PCI to PCI bridge) use the standard availble chip..like Intel,Tundra,PLX...........

mystery

Joined: 09 May 2001
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03 Sep 2003 6:41

Hi all

I just want to implement PCI target only , and my bus frequency will be 33 Mhz

zape

Joined: 10 Jul 2003
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Location: Spain

03 Sep 2003 8:23

Xilinx core PCI design is easy, but you need a bit of experience.

it_boy

Joined: 18 Jul 2002
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03 Sep 2003 9:08

PCI Target at 33MHz is easy to acheive.

I have tried PCI core from opencores.org and it's working fine on our board. There are many other free target cores on net. I suggest you to try synthesysing one of them with any other additional logic you want to implement to freeze the device you will be using.
PCI-32-33MHz is easily acheivable in Spartan-II family.
You can also have a look at other FPGAs like @ltera's Cyclone family like tom_hanks said

mystery

Joined: 09 May 2001
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03 Sep 2003 9:41

it_boy wrote:

Thanks it_boy
As a starting point I'll buy Insight Memec's PCI dev kit

sul

Joined: 28 Sep 2003
Posts: 9

03 Oct 2003 17:27

Hello it_boy,

You mentioned about many PCi cores on net for free. Could you tell me the sites for PCI target only core.

That would be great help

-Sul

it_boy wrote:

OvErFlO

Joined: 07 Dec 2001
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03 Oct 2003 17:38 Re: PCI Card design

You can find PCI open cores in this site : www.opencores.org ... enter in project section...

sul

Joined: 28 Sep 2003
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03 Oct 2003 18:09 Re: PCI Card design

on opencores.org they have PCI bridge core, I am looking for just PCI target core for free.

-Sul

OvErFlO wrote:

You can find PCI open cores in this site : www.opencores.org ... enter in project section...

it_boy

Joined: 18 Jul 2002
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03 Oct 2003 18:31 Re: PCI Card design

A PCI Target is a subset of the Host controller. You can saperate the Target core from the hos controller if you try a little bit.

Lattice provides a PCI-32 Target Reference Design with source code in verilog here.
\hxxp://www.latticesemi.com/products/devtools/ip/refdesigns/pcitarget.cfm
You can develop similar core for any other FGA you want.

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