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IIE-PCI Board: Overview
Description
The IIE-PCI Development Platform board is a low cost PCI device card with a programmable logic chip (Altera ACEX), dynamic ram, and expansion capabilities. The main purpose of the IIE-PCI board is to test PCI designs in a educational environment. Cost was a primary concern. The fabrication cost for the prototype board was U$S 330, if 10 boards are made, the cost will drop to U$S 230 per unit. More information is available at the project website:
The IIE-PCI Development Platform is part of a final degree project in Electrical Engineering in the Universidad del la República - Facultad de Ingeniería - Uruguay.
The whole project contains the following parts:
- IEE-PCI board.
- Target PCI Core toolkit (written in VHDL).
- Linux device driver toolkit for the core and the device card.
 IIE-PCI board (front)
 IIE-PCI board (back)
Features
- PCI 32 bit, 3.3V and 5V compatible
- 128Mbit SDRAM memory on-board
- ALTERA FPGA ACEX EP1K100PQ208
- Expansion header
- 31 general propouse signals
- Clock source: on-board crystal, PCI conector. Jumper selectable.
- PLL for clock regeneration and frequency multiplication. Jumper selectable.
- FPGA configuration using (jumper selectable):
- on-board ALTERA EPC2 EPROM
- JTAG header through ALTERA ByteBlasterMV
- External power connector
 IIE-PCI board (diagram)
Status
- two prototype assembled and fully functional
- boards are being used at under-graduate courses in our University.
- schematics, gerber, bill of materials available at Downloads section
- documentation, user manual and other information available at Links section
Authors
- Sebastián Fernández | sebfer at opencores.org
- Ciro Mondueri | ciro at opencores.org
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