Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has ever use FPGA to communicate with
another board that use PC/104 plus bus as the interface? To give a
better view, I have one firewire board that uses a PCI-to-1394 host
chip and another board that has an FPGA on it. I would like to control
the firewire by using the FPGA. Does anyone has any suggestion on how
to do this?

I've tried using Xilinx PCi IPCore but did not work. I was wondering
if I might need to use OPB bridge instead. I am open to any
suggestion.


Cheers!

On Jul 24, 5:09 am, awa <ameliaw.az...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has ever use FPGA to communicate with
> another board that use PC/104 plus bus as the interface? To give a
> better view, I have one firewire board that uses a PCI-to-1394 host
> chip and another board that has an FPGA on it. I would like to control
> the firewire by using the FPGA. Does anyone has any suggestion on how
> to do this?
>
> I've tried using Xilinx PCi IPCore but did not work. I was wondering
> if I might need to use OPB bridge instead. I am open to any
> suggestion.

Do you understand *why* the PCI core did not work?  Did you analyze
the transactions on the bus to see what was happening?

I don't know of any reason that the IP core would not have worked.  I
suppose it is possible that you used a core that does not have master
capability.  I am not familiar with the core you are referring to.

I am using Xilinx PCI 32-bit interface IP core. I've been going
through different thread and some people suggested PCI host bridge.

Is there anyone who have used Xilinx PCI IP Core? Do you need other IP
Core as well?