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16 years ago

Altera TSE driver and example program for lwIP (1.3.2)

After many many requests and complaints about lack of support and/or documentation for support of lwIP for the Altera TSE, I have developed a drop-in TSE driver and example program and made this avai...
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16 years ago

For the inet checksum there has to be a significant gain in defining a custom instruction that adds the two 16-bit halves of a 32 bit word together, then adds that 17 bit result to a 32 bit result.

A second version that includes a 'rotate by 8 bits' for misaligned data would also help.

These would speed up a C/asm version without adding the full complexity of a full VHDL version.