TR4 User Manual
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March 30, 2017
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The TR4 development board features two PCIe Express
downstream
interfaces (x4 lane) which are
designed to interface with a PC motherboard x4 slot via PCIe cable and PCIe adapter card. Utilizing
built-in transceivers on a Stratix IV GX device, it is able to provide a fully integrated PCI
Express-compliant solution for multi-lane (x4) applications. With the PCI Express hard IP block
incorporated in the Stratix IV GX device, it will allow users to implement simple and fast protocol,
as well as saving logic resources for logic application.
The PCI Express interface supports complete PCI Express Gen1 at 2.5Gbps/lane and Gen2 at
5.0Gbps/lane protocol stack solution compliant to PCI Express base specification 2.0 that includes
PHY-MAC, Data Link, and transaction layer circuitry embedded in PCI Express hard IP blocks.
To use PCIe interface, two external associated devices will be needed to establish link with PC.
First, a PCIe half-height add-in host card with a PCIe x4 cable connector called PCA (PCIe Cabling
Adapter Card)(See
Figure 2-25
) will be used to plug into the PCIe slot on a mother board. Then, a
PCIe x4 cable (See
Figure 2-26
) will be used to connect TR4 board and PCIe add-in card as shown
in
Figure 2-27
, the longest length up to 3 meters. These two associated devices are not included in
TR4 kit. To purchase the PCA card as well as the external cable, please refrence Terasic website
pca.terasic.com
and
PCIe_Cable.terasic.com
.
Finally, section 6.3 and 6.4 demonstrate two examples on how to use the PCIe interface of TR4
board with a PC.
Table 2-16
and
Table 2-17
summarize the PCI Express pin assignments of the
signal names relative to the Stratix IV GX FPGA.
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