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14 years ago

Cyclone III FPGA starter kit or cyclone II starter development kit?

Hi, I have been programming AVR chips for a while but now I want to get into something more complicated with more stuff to do and heard about FPGA. I was wondering witch kit I would learn better with...
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13 years ago

Actually on a PC you can change the MAC address on most network cards if you can directly talk to the chipset. On the starter kit the Triple Speed Ethernet engine uses two registers to store the MAC address and it is set by the software at run time.

The kit demonstration applications read this MAC address from the on board flash (in the last sector, if I remember correctly) and give it to the MAC.