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18 years ago

Configuring triple speed ethernet MAC with National DP83848 PHY in MII interface

Hi I am trying to make a design with a triple speed ethernet MAC from Altera work. I am using a National DP83848 PHY and the small 10/100 version of the MAC. I have attached a snapshot of my sc...
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17 years ago

Hi all,

Quick question about the PHY connection: is it necessary to take the TX & RX clock pins to global clocks netword on the Clkin pins on the FPGA (or DPCLKs), or can normal IO's be used?

Thanks,

Pierre Watts