Virtex II Pro eval Boards

Virtex II Pro eval Boards

[emanuel stiebler]

Hi,
I remember few people out here talking about the VirtexIIPro. What Eval
Boards did you use ? Experiences ?

Anybody used the VirtexIIPro with a PCI-Bridge ?

cheers & thanks in advance


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Re: Virtex II Pro eval Boards

[bob piatek]

Insight electronics has a V2Pro evaluation card that is bare bones:

http://www.insight.memec.com/cgi-bin/bvutf8/memec/scripts/local/
mc_loc_b.jsp?Div=INSIGHT&Reg=AMERICAS&Country=UNITED_STATES&Lang=EN&isDe
tailPage=true&EDOID=200910&Manu=MD_XILINX


It's a lot cheaper than the Xilinx ML300 but, of course, doesn't do as
much.  You can get daughter cards for it to support things like
Ethernet, CompactFlash, etc.  I understand that 'Mind' has ported
PPCBoot and Linux to the card:

http://mind.be/library/software/


Xilinx has a OPB to PCI bridge that supports their PCI core but it
doesn't (yet) support host applications.  Right now the bridge requires
a license to use but I understand that if you already have a license to
their PCI core then you automatically qualify for the OPB-PCI bridge.
At least that's what my FAE has told me.  I am just getting into a PCI
design with the chip so I don't have any direct experience to relate.

Bob

fishcamp engineering
105 W. Clark Ave.
Orcutt, CA  93455

http://www.fishcamp.com
TEL: 805-937-6365
FAX: 805-937-6252


On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 03:40 PM, emanuel stiebler wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I remember few people out here talking about the VirtexIIPro. What Eval
> Boards did you use ? Experiences ?
>
> Anybody used the VirtexIIPro with a PCI-Bridge ?
>
> cheers & thanks in advance
>
>
>
>
>


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Re: Virtex II Pro eval Boards

[Peter Ryser]

> Xilinx has a OPB to PCI bridge that supports their PCI core but it
> doesn't (yet) support host applications.

Yes, it does. Many PCI, PCMCIA, and PC cards work.

- Peter


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Re: Virtex II Pro eval Boards

[bob piatek]

Glad to hear that the OPB-PCI bridge supports host configurations!

The documentation needs updating.

Bob

fishcamp engineering
105 W. Clark Ave.
Orcutt, CA  93455

http://www.fishcamp.com
TEL: 805-937-6365
FAX: 805-937-6252




On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 05:22 PM, Peter Ryser wrote:

>
>> Xilinx has a OPB to PCI bridge that supports their PCI core but it
>> doesn't (yet) support host applications.
>
> Yes, it does. Many PCI, PCMCIA, and PC cards work.
>
> - Peter
>
>
>
>
>


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Re: Virtex II Pro eval Boards

[Peter Ryser]

Bob,

V2PDK contains all necessary files for a PCI host configuration and the
example design for ML300 uses it. The design as well as the PCI host
bridge are documented in V2PDK.

- Peter


bob piatek wrote:

> Glad to hear that the OPB-PCI bridge supports host configurations!
>
> The documentation needs updating.
>
> Bob
>
> fishcamp engineering
> 105 W. Clark Ave.
> Orcutt, CA  93455
>
> http://www.fishcamp.com
> TEL: 805-937-6365
> FAX: 805-937-6252
>
> On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 05:22 PM, Peter Ryser wrote:
>
> >
> >> Xilinx has a OPB to PCI bridge that supports their PCI core but it
> >> doesn't (yet) support host applications.
> >
> > Yes, it does. Many PCI, PCMCIA, and PC cards work.
> >
> > - Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >


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Re: Virtex II Pro eval Boards

[bob piatek]

Peter,

The documentation I was referring to is the opb_pci_designspec.pdf
(DS437 V2.1 January 7, 2003) from the latest EDK.  Although it
documents host bridge operation, on page 2 it states that host bridge
functionality is not implemented but will be available in a future
release of the core.

Bob

fishcamp engineering
105 W. Clark Ave.
Orcutt, CA  93455

http://www.fishcamp.com
TEL: 805-937-6365
FAX: 805-937-6252



On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Peter Ryser wrote:

>
> Bob,
>
> V2PDK contains all necessary files for a PCI host configuration and the
> example design for ML300 uses it. The design as well as the PCI host
> bridge are documented in V2PDK.
>
> - Peter
>
>
> bob piatek wrote:
>
>> Glad to hear that the OPB-PCI bridge supports host configurations!
>>
>> The documentation needs updating.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> fishcamp engineering
>> 105 W. Clark Ave.
>> Orcutt, CA  93455
>>
>> http://www.fishcamp.com
>> TEL: 805-937-6365
>> FAX: 805-937-6252
>>
>> On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 05:22 PM, Peter Ryser wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> Xilinx has a OPB to PCI bridge that supports their PCI core but it
>>>> doesn't (yet) support host applications.
>>>
>>> Yes, it does. Many PCI, PCMCIA, and PC cards work.
>>>
>>> - Peter
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
>
>


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Re: Virtex II Pro eval Boards

[Peter Vandenabeele]

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 04:58:49PM -0700, bob piatek wrote:
>
> Insight electronics has a V2Pro evaluation card that is bare bones:
>
> http://www.insight.memec.com/cgi-bin/bvutf8/memec/scripts/local/
> mc_loc_b.jsp?Div=INSIGHT&Reg=AMERICAS&Country=UNITED_STATES&Lang=EN&isDe
> tailPage=true&EDOID=200910&Manu=MD_XILINX

I figured out http://www.insight.memec.com/virtex2pro/ is a short-cut
for this ...

> It's a lot cheaper than the Xilinx ML300 but, of course, doesn't do as
> much.  You can get daughter cards for it to support things like
> Ethernet, CompactFlash, etc.  I understand that 'Mind' has ported
> PPCBoot and Linux to the card:
>
> http://mind.be/library/software/

That was an old port to a development board (ML2). Our port to the
Memec Evaluation board is not ready yet,

Peter

--
Peter Vandenabeele
Mind: Embedded Linux and eCos Development -- http://mind.be

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Re: Virtex II Pro eval Boards

[Peter Ryser]

Emanuel,

Xilinx sells the ML300 board, see http://www.xilinx.com/ml300. The board has a
PMC slot, two PC Card slots and FireWire (behind a PCI bridge). All peripherals

(including the PCI host bridge) are compiled into the FPGA.
MontaVista Linux 3.0 supports the ML300 including PCI, see
http://www.mvista.com/partners/semiconductor/xilinx.html

Our distributors also sell Virtex-II Pro based boards. AFAIK, none of them have

PCI.

- Peter

emanuel stiebler wrote:

> Hi,
> I remember few people out here talking about the VirtexIIPro. What Eval
> Boards did you use ? Experiences ?
>
> Anybody used the VirtexIIPro with a PCI-Bridge ?
>
> cheers & thanks in advance
>


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RE: Virtex II Pro eval Boards

[Kerl, John]

Xilinx has the ML300 board.  We also have built a Virtex-II
Pro Development board:

http://ads.avnet.com/em/en/evk/home/0,1729,NAT%3DALL%26SID%3D105%26TTL%3D%26
SRT%3DlaunchDate%26MID%3D%26CID%3D58377%26RID%3D0%26PID%3D%26LID%3D4%26CTP%3
DEVK,00.html

-----Original Message-----
From: emanuel stiebler [mailto:emu@ecubics.com]
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 3:40 PM
To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Virtex II Pro eval Boards



Hi,
I remember few people out here talking about the VirtexIIPro. What Eval
Boards did you use ? Experiences ?

Anybody used the VirtexIIPro with a PCI-Bridge ?

cheers & thanks in advance


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RE: Virtex II Pro eval Boards

[Kerl, John]

Clarification:  Ours uses PCI as an FPGA configuration option.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Ryser [mailto:Peter.Ryser@xilinx.com]
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 5:05 PM
To: emanuel stiebler
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Virtex II Pro eval Boards



Emanuel,

Xilinx sells the ML300 board, see http://www.xilinx.com/ml300. The board has
a
PMC slot, two PC Card slots and FireWire (behind a PCI bridge). All
peripherals

(including the PCI host bridge) are compiled into the FPGA.
MontaVista Linux 3.0 supports the ML300 including PCI, see
http://www.mvista.com/partners/semiconductor/xilinx.html

Our distributors also sell Virtex-II Pro based boards. AFAIK, none of them
have

PCI.

- Peter

emanuel stiebler wrote:

> Hi,
> I remember few people out here talking about the VirtexIIPro. What Eval
> Boards did you use ? Experiences ?
>
> Anybody used the VirtexIIPro with a PCI-Bridge ?
>
> cheers & thanks in advance
>


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