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14 years ago

Configuring triple speed ethernet MAC with National DP83640 PHY in MII interface

I have made my own custom Cyclone IV Nios board with two DP8360 PHY. I also used the TSE MAC from Altera. I'm trying to test this board using the simple socket application. First I've upda...
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14 years ago

Well it's a good sign. No either the frame sent by the phy isn't valid, for one reason or the other, or something causes the software not to answer the packets.

The TSE can optionally include statistic counters. You need to enable them in SOPC builder IIRC, and then you can read those registers (see table 5.4 of the user guide (http://www.altera.com/literature/ug/ug_ethernet.pdf)). It should tell you if the TSE core detected valid or invalid packets.