PCI 64/66 fpga eval boards

Folks,

After search the net for various eval boards, I haven't found the one
that I need and afford... that is so oxymoronic... nevertheless, I
figured I might try the community before making a decision.

I am looking for an FPGA proto board that sits on a 64/66 PCI on a ATX
motherboard.  Since we are on a budget we would like to stick with low
end devices such as Spartan 3 or Cyclone 2 with possibility to add more
FPGA modules as we need them.

I found one at http://www.4dsp.com/PCI.htm

Unfortunately, it seems that it has a 32/33 pci interface.

Any suggestions?

Thank you.
Best regards,
-Sanjay

Hi Sanjay,

I'm afraid I can't answer your question directly, but I can offer some
food for thought. Be very careful treading into 64/66 PCI territory.
The technology is new(ish), somewhat unproven, and mostly untested.
I've had experience with board vendors that flat out lie about the
64/66 capability of the boards or at least they never bothered to test
to see if it really worked.

Be sure you REALLY need that extra throughput. Good luck

MJ

Hi,

I do not get exactly what it is you are looking for ?
PCI TIM MotherBoard ?

Rgds,

John

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> Folks,
>
> After search the net for various eval boards, I haven't found the one
> that I need and afford... that is so oxymoronic... nevertheless, I
> figured I might try the community before making a decision.
>
> I am looking for an FPGA proto board that sits on a 64/66 PCI on a ATX
> motherboard.  Since we are on a budget we would like to stick with low
> end devices such as Spartan 3 or Cyclone 2 with possibility to add more
> FPGA modules as we need them.
>
> I found one at http://www.4dsp.com/PCI.htm
>
> Unfortunately, it seems that it has a 32/33 pci interface.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you.
> Best regards,
> -Sanjay
>

Hi again,

I have one of
http://www.hunteng.co.uk/legacy_products/hepc4.htm
plus a couple of TIM processing modules.
If ever this is what you are looking for.

Rgds,
John

<fpgabuilder-groups@yahoo.com> a &#4294967295;crit dans le message de
news:1148398325.753179.326230@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Folks,
>
> After search the net for various eval boards, I haven't found the one
> that I need and afford... that is so oxymoronic... nevertheless, I
> figured I might try the community before making a decision.
>
> I am looking for an FPGA proto board that sits on a 64/66 PCI on a ATX
> motherboard.  Since we are on a budget we would like to stick with low
> end devices such as Spartan 3 or Cyclone 2 with possibility to add more
> FPGA modules as we need them.
>
> I found one at http://www.4dsp.com/PCI.htm
>
> Unfortunately, it seems that it has a 32/33 pci interface.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you.
> Best regards,
> -Sanjay
>

John, MJ,

Thank you for the suggestions.  I am not sure what TIM stands for but
seems like some standard connector/interface for FPGA modules.  But
thats right, I am looking for a 64bit/66MHz card with fpgas.

I wanted to experiment with some interfaces and needed CPU to
communicate with the FPGAs over PCI.

BTW, I am surprised that 64/66 would still be new.  I used a 64/66 MHz
cPCI core in an FPGA about 3 years ago.  And as far as I can tell we
did not have any problems with the cPCI based processor boards.
Nevertheless, thanks for the heads up.

-sanjay

John Aderseen wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I have one of
> http://www.hunteng.co.uk/legacy_products/hepc4.htm
> plus a couple of TIM processing modules.
> If ever this is what you are looking for.
>
> Rgds,
> John
>
> <fpgabuilder-groups@yahoo.com> a =E9crit dans le message de
> news:1148398325.753179.326230@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > Folks,
> >
> > After search the net for various eval boards, I haven't found the one
> > that I need and afford... that is so oxymoronic... nevertheless, I
> > figured I might try the community before making a decision.
> >
> > I am looking for an FPGA proto board that sits on a 64/66 PCI on a ATX
> > motherboard.  Since we are on a budget we would like to stick with low
> > end devices such as Spartan 3 or Cyclone 2 with possibility to add more
> > FPGA modules as we need them.
> >
> > I found one at http://www.4dsp.com/PCI.htm
> >
> > Unfortunately, it seems that it has a 32/33 pci interface.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Best regards,
> > -Sanjay
> >

On Wed, 24 May 2006 01:19:40 -0700, fpgabuilder wrote:

> 
> Thank you for the suggestions.  I am not sure what TIM stands for but
> seems like some standard connector/interface for FPGA modules.  

Texas Instruments Module.  See
http://www.hunteng.co.uk/legacy_products/tim40.htm


    ~Dave~

In sci.electronics.design mljohnson00@yahoo.com wrote:
>Hi Sanjay,

>I'm afraid I can't answer your question directly, but I can offer some
>food for thought. Be very careful treading into 64/66 PCI territory.
>The technology is new(ish), somewhat unproven, and mostly untested.
>I've had experience with board vendors that flat out lie about the
>64/66 capability of the boards or at least they never bothered to test
>to see if it really worked.

>Be sure you REALLY need that extra throughput. Good luck

Isn't PCI 64/66 a dead end considering PCI-express these days ?

Isn't ISA a dead end considering PCI, yet it is still used !!!!

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> In sci.electronics.design mljohnson00@yahoo.com wrote:
>>Hi Sanjay,
>
>>I'm afraid I can't answer your question directly, but I can offer some
>>food for thought. Be very careful treading into 64/66 PCI territory.
>>The technology is new(ish), somewhat unproven, and mostly untested.
>>I've had experience with board vendors that flat out lie about the
>>64/66 capability of the boards or at least they never bothered to test
>>to see if it really worked.
>
>>Be sure you REALLY need that extra throughput. Good luck
>
> Isn't PCI 64/66 a dead end considering PCI-express these days ?
> 

In article <4474ba59$0$294$7a628cd7@news.club-internet.fr>, 
John@nospam.com says...
> Isn't ISA a dead end considering PCI, yet it is still used !!!!
> 

ISA is still used because it's trivial to hack.  PCI is anything 
but.

-- 
  Keith

On 23 May 2006 08:32:05 -0700, fpgabuilder-groups@yahoo.com wrote:

>Folks,
>
>After search the net for various eval boards, I haven't found the one
>that I need and afford... that is so oxymoronic... nevertheless, I
>figured I might try the community before making a decision.
>
>I am looking for an FPGA proto board that sits on a 64/66 PCI on a ATX
>motherboard.  Since we are on a budget we would like to stick with low
>end devices such as Spartan 3 or Cyclone 2 with possibility to add more
>FPGA modules as we need them.
>
>I found one at http://www.4dsp.com/PCI.htm
>
>Unfortunately, it seems that it has a 32/33 pci interface.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thank you.
>Best regards,
>-Sanjay

Try this UK base company. We have used their products on PCI64.
http://www.alpha-data.com/

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Mark