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Honored ContributorHelp 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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Honored ContributorI guess that you must be able to find it on the schematic of the board. Most PHYs have pins that must either be connected to ground or vcc to code the address.
The other way is to add some code in your driver to guess the PHY address. The TSE Mac driver for Interniche does that. basically it tries every address until it gets an answer.
