Altera Arria GX - Manual (Page 14)

2–8 Getting Started User Guide Altera Corporation
Arria GX Development Kit October 2007
Using the Demo Application and Example Design
Figure 2–4. Arria GX Device Block
Install Drivers and Arria GX Development Board
As stated in the “Hardware Requirements” on page 2–3 , for a flexible
setup that allows you to download different programming files to the
on-board Arria GX device, Altera recommends that you use two
computers: Computer #1 as the development board host computer, and
Computer #2 as the Quartus II programming host computer.
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This section discusses the example design and the development board
host computer (Computer #1). For information on using the Quartus II
programming host computer (Computer #2), refer to
Appendix A,
Programming the Development Board .
To install the demo application drivers and Arria GX development board,
use the following steps:
1
To install the drivers, you need to have administrator privileges
on your computer.
From Computer #1:
1. Install the Arria GX Development Kit CD-ROM.
x4 PCI Express
Edge Connector
Altera PCI Express
x4 MegaCore
Function
Application Layer
Target
Memory
DMA
Engine
Target
Memory
Control
DMA
Registers Quartus II Software
alt2gxb Megafunction
Arria GX Device