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16 years ago

Interfacing with 10/100 Ethernet

I'm trying to integrate ethernet into my design, but am having issues. The board I'm using is the Altera DE2 board, and that has a Davicom DM9000A ethernet controller on board. My SOPC builder has 3 ...
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16 years ago

I don't know the DE2 board, but usually every development board comes with a software package which installs all the required modules. I have a different dev board with a few devices not natively supported by sopc builder: a setup program included with the board added all I needed in the Altera directories.

The eeprom interface is not necessary if the device is controlled by a host processor (I suppose you want to connect it to a Nios); in these cases all the relevant non volatile data (i.e. mac address) is stored along with the processor code and the processor itself configures the ethernet controller.