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17 years ago

Triple Speed Ethernet (TSE) MAC without/built-in PHY

Hi Everyone, I was wondering if there is an alternative to built a system to use ethernet 1 Gbps only without or buillt-in quartus PHY. The TSE uses PHY to make the ethernet signals. I think ...
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15 years ago

I'm using the Altera Triple Speed Ethernet IP with cyclone iii, and trying to test the Rx and Tx of 10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC(RGMII). The test is done as following:

1- setting the loop_ENA bit in command_config register to 1 and

2-comparing the statistics counters aFramesTransmittedOK and

aFramesReceivedOK to verify that the transmit and receive frame counts are equal.

3-checking the statistics counters ifInErrors and ifOutErrors to determine the number of packets transmitted and received with errors. According to the attached file named"Triple Speed Ethernet User Guide"

So, kindly send me a design example made using the SOPC Builderto perform the internal MAC local loopback on it.