Cyclone® V FPGA – PCIe* 2.0 x4 Avalon® Memory-Mapped DMA On-Chip and External Memory Design Example

Cyclone® V FPGA – PCIe* 2.0 x4 Avalon® Memory-Mapped DMA On-Chip and External Memory Design Example

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7/14/2017

Introduction

Features: Fast and easy way to develop high-performance PCIe* 2.0 x4 hardware. The example system is in the attached Intel® Quartus® software archive, which provides a pre-configured Qsys system. Includes 64-bit Windows* and Linux* drivers and applications that work with the design example. The software included has several test patterns for the use of both forms of memory simultaneously or individually. Requirements: Quartus II software v17.0.0, Cyclone® V GT FPGA Development Kit, and a system with either 32-bit or 64-bit Linux or 64-bit Windows 7 installed.

Design Details

Device Family

Cyclone® V FPGAs and SoC FPGAs

Quartus Edition

Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition

Quartus Version

17.0

IP Cores (34)
IP Core IP Core Category
Transceiver Reconfiguration Controller TransceiverPHY
DDR3 SDRAM Controller with UniPHY ExternalMemoryInterfaces
Altera DDR3 Hard Memory Controller ExternalMemoryInterfaces
External Memory DLL block ExternalMemoryInterfaces
altera_jtag_avalon_master QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Bytes to Packets Converter QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Channel Adapter QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Single Clock FIFO QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST JTAG Interface QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Packets to Bytes Converter QsysInterconnect
Reset Controller QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Timing Adapter QsysInterconnect
Avalon Packets to Transaction Converter QsysInterconnect
MM Interconnect QsysInterconnect
Avalon-MM Master Translator QsysInterconnect
Avalon-MM Slave Translator QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Adapter QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Error Adapter QsysInterconnect
Avalon-MM Slave Agent QsysInterconnect
Memory-Mapped Burst Adapter QsysInterconnect
Memory-Mapped Width Adapter QsysInterconnect
Memory-Mapped Demultiplexer QsysInterconnect
Memory-Mapped Multiplexer QsysInterconnect
Avalon-MM Master Agent QsysInterconnect
Memory-Mapped Traffic Limiter QsysInterconnect
Memory-Mapped Router QsysInterconnect
External Memory OCT block ExternalMemoryInterfaces
DDR3 SDRAM External Memory Hard PHY Core ExternalMemoryInterfaces
DDR3 SDRAM External Memory PLL/DLL/OCT block ExternalMemoryInterfaces
DDR3 SDRAM Qsys Sequencer ExternalMemoryInterfaces
Avalon-ST Pipeline Stage QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Dual Clock FIFO QsysInterconnect
On-Chip Memory (RAM or ROM) OnChipMemory
V-Series Avalon-MM DMA for PCI Express QsysInterconnect

Detailed Description

Prepare the design template in the Quartus Prime software GUI (version 14.1 and later)


Note: After downloading the design example, you must prepare the design template. The file you downloaded is of the form of a <project>.par file which contains a compressed version of your design files (similar to a .qar file) and metadata describing the project. The combination of this information is what constitutes a <project>.par file. In releases 16.0 or newer, you can simply double click on the <project>.par file and Quartus will launch that project.


The second means to bring up the project template is through the New Project Wizard (File -> New Project Wizard). After entering the project name and folder on the first panel, the second panel will ask you to specify an empty project or project template. Select project template. You will see a list of Design Templates projects that you have loaded prior as well as various "Baseline Pinout Designs" that contain the pinout and settings for a variety of development kits. If you don't see your design template in the list, click on the link that states install the Design Templates circled below:



Browse to the <project>.par file you downloaded, click next, followed by Finish, and your design template will be installed and displayed in the Project Navigator pane in Quartus.


Note: When a design is stored in the Design Store as a design template, it has been previously regression tested against the stated version of Quartus software. The regression ensures the design template passes analysis/synthesis/fitting/assembly steps in the Quartus design flow.



Prepare the design template in the Quartus Prime software command-line


At the command-line, type the following command:

quartus_sh --platform_install -package <project directory>/<project>.par


Once the process completes, then type:

quartus_sh --platform -name <project>



Note:

* ACDS Version: 17.0.0 Standard


Design Details

Device Family

Cyclone® V FPGAs and SoC FPGAs

Quartus Edition

Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition

Quartus Version

17.0