Spartan® Family FPGAs

[has100]

Hi all,

   I am using SPARTAN 3 PCI Express starter Kit and want to communicate with FPGA
   through PCI Express communication. On PC side, i will be using Visual C or Labwindows    

  software for sending some data packets to FPGA.

   Can anyone provide some manuals or application note on this?

   Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[has100]

Hi again

I am newbie, please guide me.  Still waiting for anyone's reply.

[pfaisalbe]

Some experts will provide a better solution for you.

If  my under standing is correct , you are trying to acheive a serial communication between FPGA and PC.

This can be done through UART. Just google it " UART"

Regards

Faisal

[has100]

Hi,

No, i want to communicate PC with FPGA through PCI Express.

Thanks..

[pfaisalbe]

Sorry for my stupid answer

Basic idea is , you should understand the protocol for PCI. Then Implement it in FPGA.

Good luck

Faisal

[bassman59]

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has100 wrote:

Hi,

No, i want to communicate PC with FPGA through PCI Express.

 

Thanks..

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This is about as non-trivial as it gets.

You need to do all of the fun stuff regarding interfacing the PCIe bus to whatever back-end (local) bus you've got in your FPGA.

And you need to write a host device driver for your OS of choice.

[rcingham]

Try asking for help in the "right" forum:
http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/PCI-Express/bd-p/PCIe