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10 years ago

Disabling SGDMA in NicheStack project

I created a TSE Project, I'm running 10/100Mb Small MAC with the MII interface. I removed the SGDMA from the example project I had. 1) In the "Triple-Speed Ethernet MegaCore Function" User guide ...
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10 years ago

SGDMA is how the Ethernet frames move between memory (SDRAM, DDR, etc.) and the TSE. If you remove it, the NicheStack library would be unable to communicate with the network (it would be able to control the TSE registers, but unable to send/receive actual Ethernet frames).