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18 years ago

Ethernet with NiosII on Cyclone III FPGA Board?

I would like to use the ethernet on the cyclone 3c120 fpga development board with NiosII and the Niche TCP/IP stack. Anybody has done this already or knows about a quick solution? The CD of this deve...
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18 years ago

The bottleneck is the Nios processor. I talk about it on the nios forum (http://forum.niosforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=8751). The fastest rate I got on udp trafic with the cyclone III on the dev board was about 50Mbits/s using the Interniche TCP/IP stack and 160Mbits/s using direct calls to the ethernet driver.