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13 years ago

DVI to Ethernet

Hello All, I'm looking at my options to build a system where a video signal from DVI would be converted to ethernet packets. This would be for a streaming application. DVI data is converted w...
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13 years ago

You will need to encapsulate the incoming Avalon-ST packets into Ethernet. You will need to add a header (at minimum Ethernet, but also probably IP and UDP if you need those protocols at the receiving side) and if the incoming packets are bigger than 1500 bytes, you'll need to fragment them.

The Ethernet CRC is automatically added by the TSE, but the other checksums (on the IP and UDP levels) aren't calculated automatically.