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16 years ago

Help required on Ethernet with FPGA

Hi .. I'm a student and I'm working on a project which involves a design that has NiOS II processor, DDRSDRAM, SSRAM, a custom Ethernet MAC and other components and I've to run an applicat...
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16 years ago

Do you mean MAC address? There is no PHY address. Since you are using a soft MAC, you get to program the MAC address. With a real product you have to request a block of MAC addresses (I believe from IEEE OUI). For your purposes, you just make one up.