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12 years ago

Giving external input to Triple Speed Ethernet

Hello everybody, I want to modify the tutorial "using Triple Speed Ethernet" according to my requirement. In brief what I used is: Qsys(Hardware Generation), NIOS II Eclipse(ApplicationSoftware...
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12 years ago

If you aren't using a CPU, you will also have to implement an avalon master to configure the TSE. IIRC after a reset both the tx and rx paths are disabled and need to be enabled through the control register. Depending on your PHY you may also have to read or write a few MDIO registers.

It's doable, but both the initializations and part of the protocols you may have to use (ARP, DHCP....) are better handled in software, even if once initialized you only use hardware to generate or process the packets.