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9 years ago

Marvell 88EE1111 PHY tranciever MDIO reg configuration

I'm trying to troubleshoot PHY for my dual Ethernet design on the DE2-115 Cyclone IV board. (I have to load my *.elf file twice for some reason for my design to work). In trying to figure ou...
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8 years ago

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I'm not a fan of Marvell either and we did not use them on our own board. But, for whatever reason, many many devel boards use this Phy and you often have no choice but to get it working.

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Why any vendor that is producing development boards would use a part that they CANNOT provide full documentation for is beyond me. It makes no sense.

That being said, it is interesting to note that ALL of Marvell senior management shown at: http://www.marvell.com/company/leadership/ are new to the company in 2016 or later. Complete overhaul of the senior management in the last 18 mos or so. So maybe things might change. Or more likely not.