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16 years ago

Ethernet with DSP Dev. Kit Cyclone III (no NIOS)

Hi, I have the dsp development kit, cyclone iii edition (http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-cyc3-dsp.html). How can I use the Ethernet? In my altera > 80 > ip Direct...
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16 years ago

The Wikipedia page is easier to read, and accurate AFAIK.

If you don't use the Nios, you don't need to go through SOPC builder and can directly use the Megawizard to create your instance.

I don't know what reference manual you are talking about, but the datasheet (http://www.altera.com/literature/ug/ug_ethernet.pdf) mentions 8 address lines.

All the signals are unidirectionnal, you have separate read and write data vectors. The TSE core uses Avalon memory mapped and streams interfaces, and you can learn more about them here (http://www.altera.com/literature/manual/mnl_avalon_spec.pdf?gsa_pos=7&wt.oss_r=1&wt.oss=avalon).