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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

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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.

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I found the binary that installs the modules for the board, however it seems that they stopped supporting/including the Ethernet controller since the modules made for Quartus II 5.x.

I'm guessing this means that since the interface for this chip is different from the interfaces of what Altera provides, I need to create my own module if I would like to use this chip?