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14 years ago

Arria II GX Devkit TSE RGMII Help

Hi all, I've been struggling to get the ethernet port working on the Arria II devkit (after getting flash, DDR2, and DDR3 working). I am mimicking the code found in bts_config, but using vhdl,...
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Did you guys ever get it working? If so, what did you do? I am having the same problem.

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Not sure what the "same problem" is, but I did finally get ethernet working. AN 647 was helpful. It contains a qsys example for the Arria II GX 125 devkit. The 125 and 260 are pin compatible, so I just changed the fpga type in the .qsf file and was able to synthesize a working system. From that I derived my own top-level from scratch using device settings found in the example project.

I don't have DDR2 working at the moment (but did in the past), but have not put much effort into it since DDR3 works and is all I need for now.