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12 years ago

Gigabit Ethernet Interface (via Marvell 88E1111) with Cyclone IVE FPGA

Hello Everybody, I am using Altera DE2-115 Board (CyloneIVE device) and want to connect some other device running in Gbps via its Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver (Marvell 88E1111) interface. ...
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12 years ago

Hi,

In IP core summary, it shows NIOSII Processor and Triple speed Ethernet with license type: OpenCorePlus and other components licence type: N/A.

With the DE2-115 board, Quartus II DVD is also delivered Which contain Megacore IP LIbrary. I think those required IP could be available in this DVD.

Is it true that the licence for this Megacore IP Library delivered with the board expires after 1 year??

Actually, I am using QuartusII 12.1 Web edition but not the one delivered with the board as it is older version (Quartus II v10.0).

Probably I have to switch to this older but Subscription edition Quartus to use the feature of IP library. Does this older version (Quartus II v10.0) also support Tripple speed ethernet?

or

Is it also possible to implement Gigabit Ethernet completely in Hardware? I mean to write the complete VHDL code for both the system and application running on it? I mean not using any software like C/C++.