Friday, August 27, 2010

Using PLB PCIe bridge core with microblaze

Do you want to exchange data between your Xilinx board and your PC via PCI express interface?

So.. Having trouble configuring the Xilinx PCIe bridge core on your microblaze (or powerpc) embedded architecture? Assuming your Xilinx board is the endpoint: the board is not being detected on your windows pc? Does using 1 lane (x1) design in a 8 lane (x8) PCI express header board strange to you?

All these and more are answered here:

Configuring Xilinx PCIe Bridge core

For the PCI bridge core (not PCI express), to be used with a standard PCI header endpoint Xilinx board, the configuration is more tricky. However, the address translation principles are the same.

Best,
JM