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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 think the interface of DM9000 is somehow similar to LAN91C111, so this last is a good starting point if you need to create your own module. But I also think this is probably not necessary: if you don't have great performance issues you can simply build the interface to the chip with a tristate bridge and a few pio bits.

Then you must study the DM9000 handbook in order to build the software driver to operate it. Again, the 91C111 model could be a good starting point.