Re: Altera PCI MegaCore experiences

["Kevin Brace" <kevinbraceusenet@hotmail.com>]

I believe Altera has an evaluation program called OpenCore which will let 
you synthesize and P&R the IP core with your backend logic, but won't let 
you generate a bit stream file or generate an HDL netlist for simulation in 
third-party HDL simulators (I heard they will still let you do simulation in 
MAX+PLUS-II or Quartus II's built-in waveform simulator.).
        I am not sure if your board has to work in a 5V PCI environment, but 
if that's the case, you are probably better off not picking Altera.
Altera's FLEX10KE-1/ACEX1K-1/some APEX20Ks do support 5V PCI in theory, but 
Altera doesn't provide constraint files for FLEX10KE/ACEX1K/APEX20K in 
Quartus II. (It's not on their website.)
Altera does provide constraint files for FLEX10KE/ACEX1K in MAX+PLUS-II, but 
compared to Quartus II, MAX+PLUS-II is so outdated that you probably won't 
like using it, unless you are so used to using MAX+PLUS-II.



Kevin Brace (In general, don't respond to me directly, and respond within 
the mailing list.)



>From: "Reasoner, George E" <George.Reasoner@unisys.com>
>To: "PCI SIG Reflector (E-mail)" <pci-sig@znyx.com>
>Subject: Altera PCI MegaCore experiences
>Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:12:43 -0500
>
>I am in the process of selecting a 32-bit PCI target core, and I would like
>to hear anyone's experiences with the Altera pci_t32 MegaCore, either good
>or bad, before I make a purchase decision.
>
>Regards,
>George Reasoner
>Image & Recognition Hardware
>Unisys Corporation
>mailto:George.Reasoner@unisys.com








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