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9 years ago

Altera product for network traffic processing

Hello. Our company is interested in low-latency implementation of some application-level network protocols (say, FIX or FAST financial protocols and/or some other broker firm usages of fpga, e.g....
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Thank you. So if i want to use Altera ethernet ip core i have also to use Avalon bus core? And my business-logic core has to interact with Avalon bus core (so i need some adapter core)?

Did i understang right that Soc systems have phy+mac ethernet chips? Which is an external device that is accesible to real-time OS that runs on Nios processor?

>Meanwhile the Ethernet port connected to the SoC side of the chip (for boards that have them) uses Linux driver stack and are typically sufficient for most usage.

I read that Soc products, based on Nios 2 processor, use MicroC/OS-II operating system, which is not Linux-based. What Linux driver stack are you talking about?