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14 years ago

Triple Speed Ethernet and Streaming at 1Gbps

Hi all, I have a DE2-115 dev kit and I am looking into the feasibility of streaming data out the Gigabit port at 150Mbps. Here is where I am so far: I got the webserver NIOS project workin...
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14 years ago

Yes you are right, 150Mbps using software on the Nios will be tricky to acheive, especially if the CPU also needs to do something else, like collect the data it needs to transmit.

You can have a look at the udp offload example (http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/nios_ii_udp_offload_example) on the Altera Wiki for an example of how you could do this in hardware.