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17 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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16 years ago

There is no design example available and I think there will never be. You can't use the CII example because it uses a different chip. Altera really screwed up on the CIII kit, less than half the board is actually usable straight out of the box.

I made a design a while ago on that kit with an Ethernet connection, but it had some restrictions (Gigabit only, need to modify the ipport.h file, etc...). I posted it a while ago on the Nios forum but can't find it now. I'll see if I can find it again.