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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

My suggestion would be to get it all working with your new IP and with the NIOS in place, and then later work on removing the NIOS (i.e. leave the NIOS there as a short term debug aid). Removing the NIOS is basically going to boil down to hardcoding most/all of the initialization/setup tasks that it performs (PHY, TSE, new IP blocks).