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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

Daixiwen, yes. The mere fact that the processor isn't only going to be sending data to the TSE, but also it would need to break up the data I want to send and encapsulate each payload calls for much more processing power than the NIOS has. A bit unfortunate because if the packets could be prepared in the NIOS then the design would be trivial. :)

Thank you for the link. It looks like others before me have come up with similar solutions which is reassuring.

I will have to get down into the trenches and try it out on my board before I can comment further. I will get back to you all with what I learn should anything interesting come up.