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16 years ago

Ethernet performance using TSE in uClinux

Hi all, I am measuring ethernet performance on a NIOS II based board with an Altera TSE IP Core running uClinux, and it's been disappointing so far. I've done timing using TCP and UDP, and bar...
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15 years ago

Not with this CPU alone... Reaching 60MBytes/s with a CPU running at ~100MHz can be a challenge, with any architecture.

You will probably need a hardware acceleration, such as the one in this design example (http://www.nioswiki.com/exampledesigns/nios2udpoffloadexample). Then you can reach speeds close to the theoretical limit, if the target is able to handle it.