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14 years ago

Ethernet initialization trouble

Hi all, I am using Quartus II 10.1,Nios IDE 10.1 and a custom board,based heavily on Arria II development board.Currently i am trying to setup a GigE connection.I have a heavy suspicion on PHY wor...
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14 years ago

First of all make sure all PHY pins are correctly driven; in particular check reset and clock signals.

Then you can probe or Signaltap the mdio interface in order to see if PHY is "alive" and if it answers to hal driver requests.

This is a simple two wire serial interface. See page 4-42 of TSE user guide for more info.