Stratix V Avalon-ST Interface with SR-IOV PCIe Solutions: User Guide

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Date 5/02/2016
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11.2. Hardware Bring-Up Issues

Typically, PCI Express hardware bring-up involves the following steps:

  1. System reset
  2. Link training
  3. BIOS enumeration

The following sections describe how to debug the hardware bring-up flow. Intel recommends a systematic approach to diagnosing bring-up issues as illustrated in the following figure.

Figure 42. Debugging Link Training Issues