Would a person that knows little about FPGA's and Verilog be able to take the OC PCI bridge and a simple Wishbone device (i.e. the GPIO core) and using Xilinx's WebPACK be able to assemble a working image (not sure about the lexicon there) for a Insight Memec 2S200 PCI kit?

My goal here is to learn a bit about not only FPGA design but also about PCI interfacing and Linux device drivers. I realize that I quite possibly 'should' just get myself a small FPGA kit and work with that but I have the cash for the PCI card and that is really what I want to work with. I find it much easier to learn when I am working on something that is truly useful to me.

Thanks for your time.

Adam

>>>>> "Hunt," == Hunt, Adam ahunt at solvone.com> writes: Hunt,> Would a person that knows little about FPGA's and Verilog be able Hunt,> to take the OC PCI bridge and a simple Wishbone device (i.e. the Hunt,> GPIO core) and using Xilinx's WebPACK be able to assemble a Hunt,> working image (not sure about the lexicon there) for a Insight Hunt,> Memec 2S200 PCI kit? My goal here is to learn a bit about not Hunt,> only FPGA design but also about PCI interfacing and Linux device Hunt,> drivers. I realize that I quite possibly 'should' just get Hunt,> myself a small FPGA kit and work with that but I have the cash Hunt,> for the PCI card and that is really what I want to work with. I Hunt,> find it much easier to learn when I am working on something that Hunt,> is truly useful to me. You can build the VGA R2R DAC on a P160 mezzanine and run the VGA demo. I got it up with not to much thinking. You can then start to change things and it could be a head start. Understanding PCI and wishbone probably however is hard work, that I didn't get by until now by only rebuilding the example. Bye -- Uwe Bonnes bon at elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------