Install drivers and pci express development board – Altera PCI Express Development Kit, Stratix II GX Edition Getting Started User Manual

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Altera Corporation

Getting Started User Guide

2–9

March 2008

PCI Express Development Kit, Stratix II GX Edition

Getting Started

Figure 2–3. Stratix II GX Device Block

Install Drivers and PCI Express 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 Stratix II GX device, you need two computers. Specify
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, Using

the Parallel Flash Loader

.

To install the demo application drivers and PCI Express development
board, use the following steps:

1

To install the drivers, you need to have administrator privileges
on your computer.

From computer #1:

Stratix II GX Device

x8 PCI Express

Edge Connector

Altera PCI Express

x8 MegaCore

Function

Application Layer

Target

Memory

DMA

Engine

Target

Memory

Control

DMA

Registers

Quartus II Software

alt2gxb Megafunction

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