Cyclone IV GX Transceiver Nios MAC

Question

I am using the Cyclone IV GX Transceiver Starter Board and Quartus 12.1.

The Qsys or SOPC tools seem straight forward on implementing the FPGA portion.

The Nios II EDS provides a starter template project for Simple Socket Server.

The Template description indicates the requirement for a lan91c111 Ethernet MAC.

I don't have this hardware on the kit.

I searched the examples provided with the kit but did not find any code/examples

for the NiosII portion.

Is there a simple poject for the Nios II EDS compatable with my kit that would serve as a starting point?

My target application is a data acquisition implementation that will initially forward data via UDP protocol.

Any help appreciated.

Fred:-)

altera_forum · Answer

I located the BoardTestSystem - BT_General project in the kit examples folder.

When I try to compile the Quartus project, I get the following warnings.

Warning (15709): Ignored I/O standard assignments to the following nodes

Warning (15710): Ignored I/O standard assignment to node "L0_led"

Warning (15710): Ignored I/O standard assignment to node "local_rstn_ext"

Warning (15710): Ignored I/O standard assignment to node "pcie_rstn"

Warning (15710): Ignored I/O standard assignment to node "refclk"

Warning (15710): Ignored I/O standard assignment to node "rx_in0"

Warning (15710): Ignored I/O standard assignment to node "rxp"

Warning (15710): Ignored I/O standard assignment to node "tx_out0"

Warning (15710): Ignored I/O standard assignment to node "txp"

I have located these identifiers in the Assignment Editor. Not sure why they are there.

Finally, I get the following Error.

Error (170012): Fitter requires 903 LABs to implement the project, but the device contains only 900 LABs

I am trying get to the point where I have a working example for the Simple Socket Server as a starting point.

Any guidance appreciated:-)

altera_forum · Answer

I reduced the original ram size in the example from 16384 to 10240. program builds and loads. Successful run of Simple Socket server from example.

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