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‎07-08-2009 02:29 PM
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I'm characterizing an instrument that is powered by a PCI card. We decided to use an FPGA to control the PCI card. After reading about Quartus and SPOC Builder I'm know that this will work. My problem is figuring out which FPGA/dev. kit to buy. I need to have it connect to the PCI card and also be able to support 5 analog signals. The DSP kits seemed to lend themselves to this application but the PCI kits would make talking to the other PCI card easier. Can the PCI kits support 5 analog signals?  

Thanks for any help
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‎07-09-2009 04:09 AM
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1 - What PCI kits are you looking at? 

2 - What exactly do you mean by "analog" signals. 

 

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‎07-09-2009 04:19 AM
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I was looking at the Cyclone PCI kits. 

 

As for the analog signals, they will be 0-5V with BNC connectors. I figured the signals would go through an ADC and then be hardwired onto the board but wasn't sure about the space for inputs on the board.  

 

Also, will the PCI compiler take care of communicating with the other PCI card? I need it to go from the FPGA to the other PCI directly without going through the CPU.
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‎07-09-2009 04:36 AM
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So if you get one of these: 

http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-pci-2c35.html 

you should have enough pins on the Santa Cruz connector to wire up some ADCs. 

 

Jake
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