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13 years ago

Configuring TSE & Nichestack

I have Quartus&SBT 11.1, and a board with PHY 83848. I cannot bring up the eth interface with simple socket example. SOPC configuration is good (i hope), but i can't initialize the software: ...
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13 years ago

I haven't used the TSE driver in a long while, but I believe the proper way to initialize the descriptor memory base is via the TSE_SYSTEM_INT_MEM_NO_SHARED_FIFO and TSE_SYSTEM_EXT_MEM_NO_SHARED_FIFO macros.

AFAIK you don't need to set up different descriptor bases for tx and rx, those are automatically taken care of by the driver that will use different addresses for each DMA.

Did you try Signaltap to see what the DMAs are doing?