Altera/Microtronix NiosII Eval. Kit

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originally posted by yahoo2003@Feb 15 2005, 03:47 PM

it sounds a great solution. as i mentioned in the first post, my application is very simple: ethernet to sdram. i would like to have a reference design for host to cyclone data transfer using socket (plug?) without os.

i am wandering what is average data throughput from host to sdram using the core and eval kit.

i like the hardware of eval kit because i'm planning to use firefly modules in my design.

does the core support other phys in case the tdk phy is not available?

thanks

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Hello,

We will be releasing updated stats for the EMAC in a datasheet reasonably soon. We will be testing it with uClinux as well as stand alone. We will also be doing some improvements for the next release (1.2 - within the next couple of months) that should increase the performance.

What I can tell you for now is that the EMAC performs as well as other solutions currently available.

You can use another PHY with a little work. Currently we support the TDK PHY so that is the one that works "out of the box".

Let me know if you have any further questions either on this board or at our sales address on our website.

Robert Brookes

microtronix (http://www.microtronix.com)