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hey man, for personal research I think check this

Does the PCI core on OpenCores support DMA?  I don't have any Verilog
experience, only some VHDL.  I have this Avnet PCI development board
and am trying to make a PCI interface for an ADSL modem chipset.

Regards,
Nathan

On 12/03/2008, Umair Siddiqui <umairsiddiqui84@g...> wrote:
> hey man, for personal research I think check this
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>  http://www.em.avnet.com/evk/home/0,4534,CID%253D7816%2526CCD%253DUSA%2526SID%253DNoNav%2526DID%253DDF2%2526LID%253DNoNav%25255F%2526BID%253DDF2%2526CTP%253DEVK,00.html
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>  Avnet Spartan 3 board, it has 10/100 Ethernet MAC, and PCI (not PCIe).
>  or some other board with similar facilities. (downside of this board
>  that it contains 1 M SRAM, it should contain 64/128M SDRAM,
>  search different catalogs and try to get more gates and DRAM bits)
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>  -You can attach it to your PC PCI slot.
>  -Both PCI and Ethernet MAC Cores are available on OpenCores
>  -the rest of the FPGA will contain your TOE logic.
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>  and you also need to write the software driver of this board.
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>  i think if you can do enough TOE with this much hardware and PCI would
>  be more the enough for Packet DMA transfers.
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>  On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Christoph Zimmermann
>  <nussgipfel@b...> wrote:
>  > hi ricky
>  >
>  >  there are at least two companies out there with products and services
>  >  to support your idea. also cray is selling a high performance computing
>  >  system with such a combination.
>  >  http://www.drccomputer.com/drc/modules.html
>  >  http://www.xtremedatainc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102&Itemid=156
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>  >  yes, anything closed and high priced.
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>  >  if you had the idea to make an homebrew board for that, for get it.
>  >  hypertransport is to fast to make a simple board by your self. if you
>  >  have a lot of experience with hardware design it's still possible but
>  >  you need a lot of time and realy good tools to manage it.
>  >
>  >  what is your background? (software engineer, hardware engineer,
>  >  embedded developer,...)
>  >
>  >  greetings
>  >  christoph
>  >
>  >  Am Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:37:19 -0700 (PDT)
>  >  schrieb Ricky James Allam <rickyjamesa@y...>:
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>  >  > Hi All:
>  >  >
>  >  > I am new in FPGA design and am currently doing a personal research
>  >  > project on how to implement a co-processor using HyperTransport
>  >  > technology. The co-processor is to be used to reduce the burden of
>  >  > the host CPU (AMD Opteron) in processing TCP/IP protocols.
>  >  >
>  >  >  Can you provide me some ideas on this to come up with a rough
>  >  > prototype of the project?
>  >  >
>  >  > Your help is highly appreciated.
>  >  >
>  >  > Thanks a lot,
>  >  >
>  >  > Ricky
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