Zynq SoC Based High Speed Data Transfer Using PCIe: A Device Driver Based Approach

High Speed Data Transfers is a typical requirement of data intensive applications like image and video processing. Speed efficiency can be ensured by handling the data transfers at both Hardware and Software level. A complete system has been developed by implementing the hardware architecture on FPGA and writing corresponding Software device driver to perform the speedy data transfers from endpoint to a root complex device using PCIe interface. This paper describes the approach to design and verify this system. The speed of data transfer achieved practically for PCIe (2.0) x4 is 4Gib/s. The developed hardware architecture is resource constrained and low power. The hardware is implemented on Xilinx Zynq device. This work has a good potential in the field of image and video processing and can be used to perform large data transfer operations at high speed.