The manufacturer says . . . Murray Disman says . . . The new megafunction is also compatible with Altera's PCI prototyping board which allows designers to physically test the function with multiple PCI bridges and chip sets prior to implementation. In addition, the difficulties of supporting plug and play in both Windows NT 5.0 and Windows 98 are eliminated. In addition, device support is optimized for the FLEX 10K family, and has been extended to cover 11 speed and package combinations including the EPF10K30, EPF10K40, EPF10K50, EPF10K30A, and EPF10K100A devices.
BARs are parameterized registers which provide optimum efficiency for memory allocation.
The megafunction has successfully completed extensive hardware validation testing to ensure durability and PCI bus compliance. The megafunction ships complete with prototyping board, software drivers, and test vectors for user simulation. With this combination, designers will be able to implement a PCI solution straight out of the box. These functions are optimized for specific Altera device architecture. Altera MegaCore functions aid in critical design implementation and help reduce design tasks and development cycles.