AN 456: PCI Express High Performance Reference Design

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Date 12/12/2018
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Document Table of Contents x
1. PCI Express High Performance Reference Design
1. PCI Express High Performance Reference Design x
1.1. Understanding Throughput in PCI Express 1.2. Deliverables Included with the Reference Design 1.3. Reference Design Functional Description 1.4. Hardware Requirements 1.5. Software Requirements 1.6. Software Installation 1.7. Hardware Installation 1.8. Running the Software Application 1.9. Additional Chaining DMA Commands 1.10. Using SignalTap II 1.11. Performance Benchmarking Results 1.12. Document Revision History
1.1. Understanding Throughput in PCI Express x
1.1.1. Protocol Overhead 1.1.2. Throughput for Posted Writes 1.1.3. Throughput for Reads
1.3. Reference Design Functional Description x
1.3.1. File Naming Conventions 1.3.2. Project Hierarchy
1.7. Hardware Installation x
1.7.1. Programming using the .sof File
1. PCI Express High Performance Reference Design

1.6. Software Installation

You must have Administrator privileges to install the software application.

The software installation is included with the design files and the application includes an executable driver. The driver configuration is specific to this reference design.
  1. Download the appropriate .zip design files for your FPGA Development Kit and the demo driver. Extract the compressed files.
  2. Before plugging in the PCI Express card, copy the Windows_for_AVST_On_Chip_Mem directory to computer #1. This software works with Quartus II release 10.0 SP1 or later.
  3. Install the Windows driver. Follow the instructions in the README.txt file from the Windows_for_AVST_On_Chip_Mem directory to install and run the software application.
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