I need a commercial PCI FPGA board, please help

Annapolis Micro Firebird,

Bunch of stuff like the PCI speeds you require and a 1 to 2 million gate Virtex.

Never tried one, though I wouldn't have to be asked twice if someone wanted me to play with one.

Have you looked at Nallatech? We have one of their PCI boards in use in an R&D project - I don't knbow all the performance details but I'm sure there's some Linux support.

Glenn

Hi Seth,

You may want to take a look at the APEX or Stratix PCI Development Kits from Altera:

The Stratix PCI kit looks pretty cool, and comes with the following features: - Stratix 1S25 device (cutting-edge fpga) - PCI 32-bit/64-bit, 33/66 Mhz (PCI spec 2.3) - 133 Mhz PCI-X (PCI-X 2.0 Mode 1) - 3.3V and 5V tolerance - 256 MB of DDR266 memory - On-board flash for the FPGA - Ethernet 10/100 and RS-232 connectors - A whole bunch of debugging stuff - Can hook up to the Nios Development Kit (which is also pretty nifty)

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If you are interested in this dev kit, I'd talk to an Altera rep or file an issue with mysupport.altera.com to determine whether what you want to do on Linux is feasible.

If you willing to develop the hardware under Windows, then port the device drivers on Linux, that looks like it can be done. The kit ships with the Windows version of Jungo's WinDriver software, but according to their web site a Linux edition is available and they claim that the driver code is cross-OS portable so this *should* work. Quartus is available for Linux, so you could do your hardware coding under Linux. But the Stratix PCI Development Kit Application is made for Windows, so you would have to do without that aspect of the tool-kit. It *is* open-source if you're the adventurous type!

Good luck in your hunt,

Paul Leventis Altera Corp.

Hi Seth,

Have you looked at

We make and sell a 64-bit 66-MHz board with 1 to 5 Stratix FPGAs and a lot of I/O and external memory.

One of our customers is developing Linux drivers, which we can bundle with the board.

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Following are the links of Avnet Xilinx Virtex-II And Virtex-E Development Kits:

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