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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

fifo-less triple speed ethernet

Hello, Due to latency problem, I have to use Triple speed ethernet without internal fifos. Nevertheless, I have no piece of information about how to plug "receive_packet_type_0" or "receive_fifo_...
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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

if you don't care about the packet types, just ignore them.

For the fifo status, you can just report that they aren't full. Just note that in that case the MAC can't use flow control, and you may loose packets or data if your fifos are full when a new packet arrives.