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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

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I have a custom board with the 88E111 Ethernet PHY. At one point, the board would light up LEDs indicating a link has been made and it was in 100 mode. I did not change my design at all, but no...
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14 years ago

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I seem to have fixed the problem, hopefully permanently, by adding a 100 clock cycle delay til I drive the ethernet PHY reset line high when the board powers up.

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Is it Marvell 88E1111 chip? Did You read the datasheet then? It needs about 50ms reset after power up. Kinda annoying bug.