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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Data send thru ethernet

Hello, I am trying to do a simple task: I will form an UDP packet in hardware, then I want to move it to Nios, add IP header and send to ethernet. I will split my problem into two parts: ...
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15 years ago

Since you started generating the udp packet in hardware, why don't you go all the way and generate the IP and Ethernet headers the same way? Then you can use a multiplexer and send your packet directly to the TSE without going through memory.

Did you have a look at the UDP offload example? http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/nios_ii_udp_offload_example