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17 years ago

Ethernet MAC on Altera FPGA

Hi ...

I'm very new to working with altera and quartus.I'm working with NiOS II

development board(Cyclone III EP3C25). I have to create a design which has

a NiOS processor, SRAM, Ethernet MAC and Ethernet Management Interface and

other components.But the MAC and MI are custom components and not altera's

IPs.

I need to know how to instantiate these components in SOPC builder and I'm

not aware of the settings to be done. The thing I did is I copied my

custom component folders into C:\altera\81\ip\altera and included the

class.ptf files of components in alteracomponents.ipx file. Is this method

correct to create a component?

Thanks and regards

Renu

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    Altera_Forum
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    17 years ago

    You can place the components anywhere you like. Then inside SoPC builder you add the folder of your component to your SOPC builder library search path. It will then locate the components and you can add them to your system as you would any other component.

    Jake