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11 years ago

Cyclone IV E Gigabit Ethernet Connection

A part that our company is designing currently has the Cyclone IV E FPGA in it. I want to know if it is possible to hook it up to a phy to get gigabit ethernet access like the Cyclone IV GX offers. I...
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11 years ago

Cyclone IV E can use GMII or RGMII interfaces to the PHY. See the DE2-115 board for an example. It's fairly commonly used.