User guide
Table Of Contents
- Cyclone V Hard IP for PCI Express User Guide
- Contents
- 1. Datasheet
- 2. Getting Started with the Cyclone V Hard IP for PCI Express
- 3. Getting Started with the Avalon-MM Cyclone Hard IP for PCI Express
- Running Qsys
- Customizing the Cyclone VHard IP for PCI Express IP Core
- Adding the Remaining Components to the Qsys System
- Completing the Connections in Qsys
- Specifying Clocks and Interrupts
- Specifying Exported Interfaces
- Specifying Address Assignments
- Simulating the Example Design
- Simulating the Single DWord Design
- Understanding Channel Placement Guidelines
- Adding Synopsis Design Constraints
- Creating a Quartus II Project
- Compiling the Design
- Programming a Device
- 4. Parameter Settings for the Cyclone V Hard IP for PCI Express
- 5. Parameter Settings for the Avalon-MM Cyclone V Hard IP for PCI Express
- 6. IP Core Architecture
- Key Interfaces
- Protocol Layers
- Multi-Function Support
- PCI Express Avalon-MM Bridge
- Avalon-MM Bridge TLPs
- Avalon-MM-to-PCI Express Write Requests
- Avalon-MM-to-PCI Express Upstream Read Requests
- PCI Express-to-Avalon-MM Read Completions
- PCI Express-to-Avalon-MM Downstream Write Requests
- PCI Express-to-Avalon-MM Downstream Read Requests
- Avalon-MM-to-PCI Express Read Completions
- PCI Express-to-Avalon-MM Address Translation for Endpoints
- Minimizing BAR Sizes and the PCIe Address Space
- Avalon-MM-to-PCI Express Address Translation Algorithm
- Single DWord Completer Endpoint
- 7. IP Core Interfaces
- Cyclone V Hard IP for PCI Express
- Avalon-MM Hard IP for PCI Express
- Physical Layer Interface Signals
- Test Signals
- 8. Register Descriptions
- Configuration Space Register Content
- Altera-Defined Vendor Specific Extended Capability (VSEC)
- PCI Express Avalon-MM Bridge Control Register Access Content
- Avalon-MM to PCI Express Interrupt Registers
- PCI Express Mailbox Registers
- Avalon-MM-to-PCI Express Address Translation Table
- Root Port TLP Data Registers
- Programming Model for Avalon-MM Root Port
- PCI Express to Avalon-MM Interrupt Status and Enable Registers for Root Ports
- PCI Express to Avalon-MM Interrupt Status and Enable Registers for Endpoints
- Avalon-MM Mailbox Registers
- Correspondence between Configuration Space Registers and the PCIe Spec 2.1
- 9. Reset and Clocks
- 10. Transaction Layer Protocol (TLP) Details
- 11. Interrupts
- Interrupts for Endpoints Using the Avalon-ST Application Interface
- Interrupts for Root Ports Using the Avalon-ST Interface to the Application Layer
- Interrupts for Endpoints Using the Avalon-MM Interface to the Application Layer
- Interrupts for End Points Using the Avalon-MM Interface with Multiple MSI/MSI-X Support
- 12. Optional Features
- 13. Flow Control
- 14. Error Handling
- 15. Transceiver PHY IP Reconfiguration
- 16. SDC Timing Constraints
- 17. Testbench and Design Example
- Endpoint Testbench
- Root Port Testbench
- Chaining DMA Design Examples
- Test Driver Module
- Root Port Design Example
- Root Port BFM
- BFM Procedures and Functions
- 18. Debugging
- A. Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) Header Formats
- Additional Information

Chapter 6: IP Core Architecture 6–13
PCI Express Avalon-MM Bridge
December 2013 Altera Corporation Cyclone V Hard IP for PCI Express
User Guide
■ Control Register Access (CRA) Slave Module—This optional, 32-bit Avalon-MM
dynamic addressing slave port provides access to internal control and status
registers from upstream PCI Express devices and external Avalon-MM masters.
Implementations that use MSI or dynamic address translation require this port.
When you select the Single dword completer in the GUI for the Avalon-MM Hard IP
for PCI Express, Qsys substitutes a unpipelined, 32-bit RX master port for the 64- or
128-bit full-featured RX master port. For more information about the 32-bit RX master
refer to “Avalon-MM RX Master Block” on page 6–23.
Figure 6–6 shows the block diagram of a PCI Express Avalon-MM bridge.
Figure 6–6. PCI Express Avalon-MM Bridge
Transaction Layer
PCI Express
Tx Controller
PCI Express
Rx Controller
Data Link Layer
Physical Layer
PCI Express MegaCore Function
Tx Slave Module
Control & Status
Reg (CSR)
Sync
Avalon Clock Domain PCI Express Clock Domain
Rx Master ModuleRx Master Module
PCI Express Avalon-MM Bridge
System Interconnect Fabric
PCI Link
CRA Slave Module
Address
Translator
Avalon-MM
Tx Read
Response
Avalon-MM
Tx Slave
Avalon-MM
Rx Read
Response
Avalon-MM
Rx Master
MSI or
Legacy Interrupt
Generator
Control Register
Access Slave
Address
Translator