Virtex II Pro eval Boards
Hi,
I remember few people out here talking about the VirtexIIPro. What Eval Boards did you use ? Experiences ?
Anybody used the VirtexIIPro with a PCI-Bridge ?
cheers & thanks in advance
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Insight electronics has a V2Pro evaluation card that is bare bones:
http://www.insight.memec.com/cgi-bin/bvutf8/memec/scripts/local/
mc_loc_b.jsp?Div=INSIGHT&Reg=AMERICAS&Country=UNITED_STATES&Lang=EN&isDe tailPage=true&EDOID=200910&Manu=MD_XILINX
It's a lot cheaper than the Xilinx ML300 but, of course, doesn't do as much. You can get daughter cards for it to support things like Ethernet, CompactFlash, etc. I understand that 'Mind' has ported PPCBoot and Linux to the card:
http://mind.be/library/software/
Xilinx has a OPB to PCI bridge that supports their PCI core but it doesn't (yet) support host applications. Right now the bridge requires a license to use but I understand that if you already have a license to their PCI core then you automatically qualify for the OPB-PCI bridge. At least that's what my FAE has told me. I am just getting into a PCI design with the chip so I don't have any direct experience to relate.
Bob
fishcamp engineering
105 W. Clark Ave.
Orcutt, CA 93455
http://www.fishcamp.com
TEL: 805-937-6365
FAX: 805-937-6252
Quoted 13 lines · emanuel stiebler
Hi,
I remember few people out here talking about the VirtexIIPro. What Eval Boards did you use ? Experiences ?Anybody used the VirtexIIPro with a PCI-Bridge ?
cheers & thanks in advance
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Emanuel,
Xilinx sells the ML300 board, see http://www.xilinx.com/ml300. The board has a PMC slot, two PC Card slots and FireWire (behind a PCI bridge). All peripherals
(including the PCI host bridge) are compiled into the FPGA. MontaVista Linux 3.0 supports the ML300 including PCI, see
http://www.mvista.com/partners/semiconductor/xilinx.html
Our distributors also sell Virtex-II Pro based boards. AFAIK, none of them have
PCI.
- Peter
Quoted 8 lines · emanuel stiebler
Hi,
I remember few people out here talking about the VirtexIIPro. What Eval Boards did you use ? Experiences ?Anybody used the VirtexIIPro with a PCI-Bridge ?
cheers & thanks in advance
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Xilinx has a OPB to PCI bridge that supports their PCI core but it doesn't (yet) support host applications.
Yes, it does. Many PCI, PCMCIA, and PC cards work.
- Peter
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Glad to hear that the OPB-PCI bridge supports host configurations!
The documentation needs updating.
Bob
fishcamp engineering
105 W. Clark Ave.
Orcutt, CA 93455
http://www.fishcamp.com
TEL: 805-937-6365
FAX: 805-937-6252
Quoted 12 lines · Peter Ryser
Quoted 3 lines
Xilinx has a OPB to PCI bridge that supports their PCI core but it doesn't (yet) support host applications.
Yes, it does. Many PCI, PCMCIA, and PC cards work.
- Peter
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Quoted 6 lines · bob piatek
Insight electronics has a V2Pro evaluation card that is bare bones:
http://www.insight.memec.com/cgi-bin/bvutf8/memec/scripts/local/
mc_loc_b.jsp?Div=INSIGHT&Reg=AMERICAS&Country=UNITED_STATES&Lang=EN&isDe tailPage=true&EDOID=200910&Manu=MD_XILINX
I figured out http://www.insight.memec.com/virtex2pro/ is a short-cut for this ...
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It's a lot cheaper than the Xilinx ML300 but, of course, doesn't do as much. You can get daughter cards for it to support things like Ethernet, CompactFlash, etc. I understand that 'Mind' has ported PPCBoot and Linux to the card:
That was an old port to a development board (ML2). Our port to the Memec Evaluation board is not ready yet,
Peter
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Peter Vandenabeele
Mind: Embedded Linux and eCos Development -- http://mind.be
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Bob,
V2PDK contains all necessary files for a PCI host configuration and the example design for ML300 uses it. The design as well as the PCI host bridge are documented in V2PDK.
- Peter
Quoted 10 lines · bob piatek
Glad to hear that the OPB-PCI bridge supports host configurations!
The documentation needs updating.
Bob
fishcamp engineering
105 W. Clark Ave.
Orcutt, CA 93455
Quoted 18 lines
http://www.fishcamp.com
TEL: 805-937-6365
FAX: 805-937-6252Quoted 12 lines · Peter Ryser
Quoted 3 lines
Xilinx has a OPB to PCI bridge that supports their PCI core but it doesn't (yet) support host applications.
Yes, it does. Many PCI, PCMCIA, and PC cards work.
- Peter
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Peter,
The documentation I was referring to is the opb_pci_designspec.pdf (DS437 V2.1 January 7, 2003) from the latest EDK. Although it documents host bridge operation, on page 2 it states that host bridge functionality is not implemented but will be available in a future release of the core.
Bob
fishcamp engineering
105 W. Clark Ave.
Orcutt, CA 93455
http://www.fishcamp.com
TEL: 805-937-6365
FAX: 805-937-6252
Quoted 45 lines · Peter Ryser
Bob,
V2PDK contains all necessary files for a PCI host configuration and the example design for ML300 uses it. The design as well as the PCI host bridge are documented in V2PDK.
- Peter
Quoted 28 lines · bob piatek
Glad to hear that the OPB-PCI bridge supports host configurations!
The documentation needs updating.
Bob
fishcamp engineering
105 W. Clark Ave.
Orcutt, CA 93455http://www.fishcamp.com
TEL: 805-937-6365
FAX: 805-937-6252Quoted 12 lines · Peter Ryser
Quoted 3 lines
Xilinx has a OPB to PCI bridge that supports their PCI core but it doesn't (yet) support host applications.
Yes, it does. Many PCI, PCMCIA, and PC cards work.
- Peter
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