On Monday 05 March 2007 07:44, Brian Padalino wrote: > With regards to the PCIe interface, were you looking more at just > getting a PHY transceiver and putting the MAC and other layers in the > FPGA, or were you more interested in having a PCIe bridge chip that > handles all of that for you? > > I know Philips and TI have PCIe transceivers which work with Xilinx > and Altera IP for the MAC layer, but what I really found interesting > was a PCIe bridge chip from PLX technologies. It's a relatively hefty > BGA, but if you can place it properly the chip could really be a huge > help. No NDA's are required and the information can be found here.
You would still need a PCI core although you can get those a lot cheaper than PCIe cores. You can even get a free one from OpenCores (there is a PCI to wishbone bridge for example). As far as I am aware there are no PCIe equivalents to the PLX 9054 (for example) - ie PCIe to local bus bridges. You might need some information about laying out your board for PCIe compliance however you can probably glean that information from a PLX example design :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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