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Altera_Forum
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15 years agoHmmm..... An embedded ethernet/TCP stack shouldn't necessarily require interrupts - it just needs to be called often enough to process the receive data stream. The ethernet chips receive descriptor ring can be used to hold the rx buffers with data (waiting to be processed) and the free buffers!
If you are trying to capture RF baseband you almost certainly need to get the ADC to save its data in a FIFO or ring buffer from where the Nios can save or process it. At least that will guarantee you get a block of consequetive samples for later processing.