AN-811: Using the Avery BFM for PCI Express Gen3x16 Simulation on Intel® Stratix® 10 Devices

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AN-811: Using the Avery BFM for PCI Express Gen3x16 Simulation on Intel® Intel® Stratix® 10 Devices Create the Example Design Setup the Simulation Environment Run the Simulation View Results Document Revision History
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Download and Extract the Avery Simulation Scripts Create the Avery BFM File List Create the Example Design File List Configure the Avery BFM Testbench Top-level File
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Configure the Avery BFM x
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AN-811: Using the Avery BFM for PCI Express Gen3x16 Simulation on Intel® Intel® Stratix® 10 Devices
Create the Example Design
Setup the Simulation Environment
Run the Simulation
View Results
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This Avery root complex BFM example includes bus enumeration and a simple test case of 10 random MemWr and MemRd transactions.

After running the simulation, the simulator should output results indicating whether or not the test passed, as well as the RX and TX bandwidth.

Figure 5. Simulator Results

You can also view the waveforms by opening apci_top.vpd (VCS) or vsim.wlf (ModelSim).

Figure 6. ModelSim WaveformLink-training process up to Gen3x16 using the Avery root complex BFM
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