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16 years ago

Maximum ethernet speed available with NiosII + Linux

Hello, I plane to built a system with a niosII mmu and linux on an Cyclone III device. I will use an IP ethernet core with an dp83848 phy. I need to use ethernet TCP communication. What is t...
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16 years ago

There are already several threads om this issue in this forum (perhaps some of them, were lost in the biog crash year ago).

AFAIR, the max throughput found was about 1-5 MByte/sec for a 100 MHz CPU without MMU.

No idea if his will be greatly better or worse if you use an MMU.

I doubt that the MAC or PHY hardware makes a big difference.

-Michael