MAX10 TSE reference design

Hey Tim, thanks for the update here. Is there also a working reference designs for the max10 webserver (remote update) with tse-mac available in the store. The existing reference designs do not pass the qsys build from 17.0 onwards.

Hello Dr Barry,

Good day to you. Here's some insights from us regarding your earlier queries regarding Iperf3.  Hope this can be helpful.

I'm looking into your latest question meanwhile.

Hi Tim,

Many thanks for the MAX10 TSE reference design. It had gotten into quite a mess i think ! Its great that it was tested at 1G which is what i need to use. All my tests had been failing but as you say: not a good idea to change data and clock simultaneously! I will try your zipped project and see if i can get it to compiled and working properly. Which Quartus Version does this project belong to please ? I am hoping to use it in a Quartus 25.1 Std project eventually.

Thanks are also due then to Scott Prigmore for doing the fix up work !

Thanks very much, Dr Barry H

Hi again Tim,

I noticed after unzipping your attached zip file that the design was done in Quartus 2018.1. I have Quartus 2018.0 ....will it make a difference using that earlier version ? I was thinking that usually small increments to Quartus don't matter much, but maybe i will download Quartus 2018.1 to be sure.

Now when i compiled your project it does compile but i get some timing failures like the ones you can see in my attached screenshot on the Tx side. I wonder if i need to apply any compiler or fitter specific options to get the best performance and eliminate these timing failures ? There are a lot of options in the advanced compiler and fitter options list in Quartus compiler section !

Now to the results. I downloaded my bit file to my MAX10 Dev board and when i try either the TEST_MAC_LB "1000M"  or TEST_MAC_LB "100M" or TEST_MAC_LB "10M"  after running the main.tcl sctipt from the sc_tcl directory i only ever see 10000 Tx frames sent but 0 frames received when i review the stats_chk results in system console.

I have am using an ALTERA MAX10 10M50-C Development board, which is connected to a windows 10 PC and it seems to be connecting OK because i can see the Yellow lights are lit on the MAX10 dev board ETHER A RJ45 port.

Can you suggest what steps i am missing or what i am doing wrong please ? I know you all of your Loopback tests passed at 10/100/1000 speeds so i am not sure why mine all seem to be failing (again!).

In fact can you possibly add a screenshot which shows the results you get when you run these Loopback tests please if that's possible ? It would be very helpful and encouraging to actually see this TSE working !!

Thanks for your help, Dr Barry H

Hello Barry,

Looking at thread history, its 5 years ago thread. Hence I'll go ahead and close this Forum but you may continue to work on this thread for community support. If you need further help, please file a new Forum.

Regards,

Pavee