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15 years ago

Stream data from CIII kit using UDP over 1000 Ethernet

I have a CIII kit (EP3C120F780). My ultimate goal is to use my CIII kit to connect an ADC board to my laptop. I want to stream data from my ADC board through the HSMC header and out to my laptop over...
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15 years ago

You can use the Altera triple speed ethernet MAC and feed it with the UDP packets that you build with some custom hardware. Have a look at the nios ii udp offload example (http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/nios_ii_udp_offload_example).

As an alternative you could try a software solution with a Nios CPU and a UDP/IP stack but I don't think it would manage to reach 112MBps, or at least not easily.