Xilinx PCI v3.0 manual About This Guide, Preface, Guide Contents

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Preface

About This Guide

The PCI Getting Started Guide provides information about the LogiCORE™ Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) interface, which provides a fully verified, pre-implemented PCI bus interface available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

This guide discusses the supported design flows for 32-bit and 64-bit PCI interfaces based on the Virtex™ and Spartan™ architectures, and provides an example design in both Verilog-HDL and VHDL.

Guide Contents

This manual contains the following chapters:

•Chapter 1, “Getting Started” describes the core and related information, including additional resources, technical support, and submitting feedback to Xilinx.

•Chapter 2, “Installing and Licensing the Core” provides information about installing and licensing the core.

•Chapter 3, “Family Specific Considerations” provides information about design considerations specific to the PCI interface targeting Virtex and Spartan devices.

•Chapter 4, “Functional Simulation” describes how to simulate the example design using the supported functional simulation tools, including Cadence NC-Verilog v5.0 and Model Technology ModelSim v5.7b.

•Chapter 5, “Synthesizing a Design” how to synthesize the example design using the supported synthesis tools, including Synplicity Synplify v7.3, Exemplar LeonardoSpectrum v2003a, and Xilinx XST.

•Chapter 6, “Implementing a Design” describes how to implement the example design using the supported FPGA implementation tools included with the ISE Foundation v7.1i software.

•Chapter 7, “Timing Simulation” describes how to perform timing simulation using the supported post-route timing simulation tools, including Cadence NC-Verilog v5.0 and Model Technology ModelSim v5.7b.

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