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Altera_Forum
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Honored Contributorusing Video in and ethernet
hi: I am very helpless for the job at hand,now. I gether a lot of references and hope to resolve the questions on my own,but I found that it is very difficult for me ,because of the lock of the ...
Altera_ForumHonored Contributor
Honored ContributorUsing a PIO to get the video signal will probably be too slow. You'll have to format your video signal as a stream and use something like a SGDMA to write it to the RAM.
What you need to provide to the MAC fifo is a full Ethernet packet. This includes the Ethernet header, the IP header, a UDP header (I think UDP is what you'll want to use) and the data itself. You can have a look at Wikipedia to get all the header formats, they are well described there.
