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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

I started compiling it (./create-NO_MMU_DEV) and it took ~40 minutes. Does this occur at your PC too?

I programmed the (time limited) SOF File to the Board. That works, on the two Displays I can read "Wind River Linux for NIOS II" and "ID: 0x2EA82CDC ...". To check the Ethernet, I used simple socket server plus (http://www.nioswiki.com/exampledesigns/simplesocketserverplus), which is also working now.

My question for you is: In one of your previous posts you said that it is possible to use the NIOS as an Ethernet driver. Does that mean that I can use this Simple Socket Server Plus for NIOS in my FPGA-Design? The FPGA itself should also do some other work like reading from the ADC and writing and reading from/to the DDR2-SDRAM.