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16 years ago

TCP/IP 1Gbit/s - How?

Hello, is there a possibility for creating a system based on the Cyclone III which is able to transmit TCP/IP data packets with a speed of 1GBit/s? I guess that a NIOS would be to slowly f...
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16 years ago

It will be extremely difficult. For UDP you could use custom hardware to handle the packets , but for TCP it is a lot harder.

If you do it by software the Nios CPU is way too slow. You'd better look for a dedicated CPU