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15 years ago

Ethernet problem turned out to be a memory / DMA problem

So I have spent a couple weeks trying to troubleshoot Ethernet functionality on my custom board. I finally isolated the problem last night. Ethernet data is getting into the FPGA just fine. I can ...
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15 years ago

David,

I believe that memory test that you're referring to also makes use of a standard Avalon DMA, if you have one in your system. That ~might~ have caught the issue that you saw...

Learning is always good, BTW :-)

Cheers,

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