Honored ContributorHello,
I'm working with the Cyclone III dev board (EP3C120), where I can use the Triple Speed Ethernet MegaCore for a communication. But for this I need to have the address of the PHY port on the board. I've checked in the data-sheet but could not find it anywhere... Where can I get any information about it? Thanks.:)
Honored ContributorThe phy address will be set by a few external resistors on the IC. These pins are used to bootstrap some parameters, like phy address, autoneg state, media mode, etc. that can be tied to a series of config pins. It's more than likely the sch (and board docs) will tell you the phy address.
Honored ContributorPost a link to the board you have. Most of the Altera kits I have use a Marvell 88E1111 with a PHY address of 0, using MDIO mode for the communications interface.
For a PHY address of zero, config[0] = GND, and config[1] = LED_LINK1000. If your board has this PHY, but a different connection, respond with the link and I'll look in the PHY data sheet to tell you what the address is. Cheers, DaveHonored Contributorthanks a lot :)
I got this board (htt p://w ww.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-cyc3-dsp.html) and on it is exactly the Marvell 88E1111 chip, I'll give a try :) (sry got no access to post a link yet) cheersHonored Contributor
