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13 years ago

Implementing TCP layer in FPGA

Hello, I need to have a very basic tcp functionality in FPGA which can connect with another machine and transfer payload sent from another hardware module. I am a very beginner in TCP. Is there any o...
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13 years ago

TCP on the hardware level is complicated to implement. AFAIK there is no opensource project, and the commercial alternatives are expensive. It is a lot easier to use a software solution if you want to stick to TCP, or use UDP which is a lot easier to implement in hardware.