Altera PCI Express Development Kit, Stratix II GX Edition Getting Started - Manual (Page 5)

Altera Corporation Getting Started User Guide 1–1
March 2008 PCI Express Development Kit, Stratix II GX Edition
1. About This Kit
Introduction The PCI Express Development Kit, Stratix II GX Edition provides
everything you need to develop and test a complete PCI Express system
based on the Stratix II GX device.
The development kit includes these kit features and documentation:
■ The Stratix II GX PCI Express development board
■ Quartus ® II Software, Development Kit Edition (DKE), and
MegaCore IP Library DVD
■ PCI Express Development Kit, Stratix II GX Edition CD-ROM
■ Design examples
■ Power supply, cables, and documentation
Kit Features This section briefly describes the PCI Express Development Kit,
Stratix II GX Edition features.
■ The Stratix II GX PCI Express Development Board—a prototyping
platform that allows you to develop and prototype high-speed bus
interfaces as well as evaluate Stratix II GX transceiver performance.
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For specific information about board components and interfaces, refer to
the Stratix II GX EP2SGX90 PCI Express Development Board Reference
Manual.
■ Design Examples—The design examples (available on the CD-ROM)
are useful for a variety of hardware applications and let you quickly
begin board prototyping and device verification.
■ PCI Express Development Kit Application & Drivers—The kit’s
application and drivers (available on the CD-ROM) allow you to
process memory read and write transactions to the board. In
addition, you can initiate memory or DMA transaction pairs (read
and write), as well as read the various configuration and DMA
registers.