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13 years ago

stratix 3 fpga interface with ethernet

Hello sir, I am designing a hardware board for general purpose in which FPGA has to interface with ethernet . Can u please tell which ethernet has to be taken and on what basis? and also tell ab...
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13 years ago

I don't have any finished design to show you, but you can have a look at some PHY datasheets for suggestions. In my company we use PHYs from SMSC and we are quite happy with them:

http://www.smsc.com/products/ethernet_and_embedded_networking/ethernet_transceivers/lan8710a_lan8720a

You will find a lot of information in the datasheet itself, and you can also find in the download section some schematics for an evaluation board.

For the FPGA side I suggest reading the TSE documentation: http://www.altera.com/literature/ug/ug_ethernet.pdf.