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13 years ago

Triple Speed Ethernet: MAC Address Insertion

Hi, I'm working on a project which needs a communication between Cyclone III and PC through the Ethernet connection. In this TSE MegaCore user guide, page 4-4, section "Address Insertion", it i...
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13 years ago

You need to supply the Ethernet header with your packet payload. What the MAC adds are the preamble, start of frame delimiter, CRC and interframe gap. So there is nothing contradictory here. If you look at Wikipedia's table, what you need to give to the TSE MAC is everything between (and including) the destination MAC and the Payload.