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FILENUMBER: 1044 BEGIN_KEYWORDS FREE PCI BRIDGE SOFT CORE END_KEYWORDS DATE: February 2002 TITLE: FREE PCI BRIDGE SOFT CORE
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TITLE: FREE PCI BRIDGE SOFT CORE

OpenCores announces the immediate availability of the open-source, 
free, complete 33/66MHz 32-bit PCI Bridge Soft Core solution.

The PCI  Bridge  Soft  Core  is  a  complete,  synthesizable  RTL
(Verilog)  code  that  provides  bridging  between  the PCI and a
WISHBONE (System-on-Chip)  bus.  The  complete  package  includes
comprehensive   specification   and   design   documentation,   a
comprehensive verification suite, and a test application.

Test application is a VGA card implemented using a Xilinx Spartan
II  device  on  a PCI development board from Insight Electronics.
PCI bridge core is connected to  a  simple  VGA  controller  core
forming  a  system-on-chip  and  comes  with a Linux frame buffer
device driver.

The PCI Bridge Soft Core supports common ASIC and FPGA  libraries
and is highly configurable including options for Master/Target or
Target-only as well as for  Host  or  Guest  operation.  You  can
download  the PCI Bridge Soft Core from the OpenCores PCI Project
Website at .

OpenCores invites companies  and  universities  to  use  our  PCI
Bridge  Soft  Core  in your projects. Our main motivation and the
sole reason for launching the PCI project has been and is to  see
the core used in many different projects. What we have in mind is
a development  much  like  that  of  open-source  software  (e.g.
Linux).

OpenCores is an organization whose main objective is  to  design,
reuse,  and  integrate  IP cores under the General Public License
(GPL) helping the  concept  of  freely  available,  open-  source
hardware to emerge and become visible and apparent.

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