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21 years ago

maximum ethernet speed

Hello! simple question: what are your experiences about the network speed with nios2 and lwip stack? my scenario: nios2 @ 75MHz lwip stack udp packages 1500 bytes (loop sending alway...
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20 years ago

I took a look at a 1000 MBit MAC IP from MorethanIP. They use a 4 bit MII Interface @ 25 MHz to transfer the data to the PHY. So the Interface has a limit from 12.5 MByte/s. I think GigaBit Ethernet is not fast enough.

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revolt