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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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15 years ago

Yes, you're right - there is very little information to go on after the demo/example is running. Somewhere in this thread I gave a pretty good list of optimizations to implement. This example was meant to be run as easily as possible with the Eclipse IDE and exiting NIOS II libraries. The truth is we use a custom TSE and SGDMA driver because what is there is very inefficient. We also use the FPGA to speed up lwIP further (IP checksum, htons and htonl). We've also had to use UDP when TCP wasn't fast enough.

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