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12 years ago

Ethernet Access to linux through FPGA

Hi, I was wondering how easy the following scenario would be: 1. Network traffic comes into the FPGA fabric 2. Some FPGA pre/post post processing occurs on the data. 3. The data is then p...
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12 years ago

That's a perfectly reasonable scenerio but I don't think there are TSE Linux drivers shipped with the SocKit. I know of others implementing drivers to do this (minus the pre/post processing) but I don't expect it to be ready until the next version of the ACDS is released.

There are Linux drivers for Nios II and the TSE so I would look for those. I think porting them over to SoC would be the path of least resistence for now.