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Honored ContributorMarvell 88E1111 PHY on DE2-115
Hello all, We're a couple of students doing our main project on this board, a design with no softcores. For handling the PHY we have a state machine and an MDIO component in place. H...
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Honored Contributor --- Quote Start --- We wanted to learn *VHDL*, no cores --- Quote End --- In that case, start with something that you can get the whole data sheet to, eg., an asynchronous SRAM or Flash interface, an SSRAM interface, an SDRAM controller, etc. Marvell is a pain to get datasheets from. --- Quote Start --- Thanks for the tip about signaltapping into an existing design btw! --- Quote End --- Its also very useful to trying to understand what an Altera IP core does in hardware. Sometimes the documentation can be a little 'light' on details. Cheers, Dave
