AN 855: PCI Express* High Performance Reference Design for Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX

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ID 683504
Date 6/08/2018
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Document Table of Contents x
1. PCI Express High Performance Reference Design
1. PCI Express High Performance Reference Design x
1.1. Understanding Throughput in PCI Express 1.2. Deliverables Included with the Reference Design 1.3. Reference Design Functional Description 1.4. Hardware Requirements 1.5. Software Requirements 1.6. Software Installation 1.7. Hardware Installation 1.8. Running the Software Application 1.9. Additional Chaining DMA Commands 1.10. Using SignalTap II 1.11. Performance Benchmarking Results 1.12. Document Revision History
1.1. Understanding Throughput in PCI Express x
1.1.1. Protocol Overhead 1.1.2. Throughput for Posted Writes 1.1.3. Throughput for Reads
1.3. Reference Design Functional Description x
1.3.1. Project Hierarchy
1.7. Hardware Installation x
1.7.1. Programming using the .sof File
1. PCI Express High Performance Reference Design

1.6. Software Installation

You must have Administrator privileges to install the software application.

The software installation is included with the design files and the application includes an executable driver. The driver configuration is specific to this reference design.
  1. Download the installation package from the Design Store and restore the project. The software application and Windows driver are included in the driver folder in the project directory.
  2. Before plugging in the PCI Express card, copy the Windows_for_AVST_On_Chip_Mem directory to computer #1.
  3. Install the Windows driver. Follow the instructions in the README.txt file from the Windows_for_AVST_On_Chip_Mem directory to install and run the software application.
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