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16 years ago

NIOS : INTERNICHE stack without ucOSII

Hello I'd like to use the interniche stack and the TSE ethernet mac, but without ucOSII.. I've heard, it exist a superloop example but it seems a lot of files patching is mandatory. D...
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16 years ago

dsl you are right, if you want a bandwith that is significant over fast ethernet you need hardware acceleration. To achieve about 640 MBit/s data rate I had to offload the whole UDP protocol, but for controlling the user application the TCP/IP stack is fast enough.

There is an app note (AN440) for accelerating ethernet applications. Checksum offload through custom instructions is also described.

Jens