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16 years ago

PHY Layer FPGA

With all the applications for SERDES and 1000BASE products, I would think that there might be a device which I could program that will perform the 100BASE-TX and/or 100BASE-FX function that I am look...
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16 years ago

It seems this is the main issue is the capability of sending/receiving the CMD-n character.

Does anybody know if the SMII or SGMII protocols support the transmission of special characters? If so, then perhaps a PHY with SMII or SGMII interface could be used in conjunction with an FPGA.

Jake