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11 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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11 years ago

Yes I recommend to use the CPU, as they do in the offload example. It will make everything easier. IT doesn't need to be very powerful, so even the /e core, that doesn't require a license, can be used.

As long as your hardware module is able to generate UDP packets on the avalon stream at 750Mbps, the TSE should be able to follow. Just check that the CPU configured the TSE and the PHY correctly in gigabit mode first.