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12 years ago

Payload Length in Small 10/100 MAC

Hello, We are using Custom Cylcone-IV board and currently testing Ethernet using small 10/100 MAC. I went through TSE MAC user guide of Altera, and i understand that length/type is part of ...
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12 years ago

What exactly do you want to achieve? The size of a given frame is defined by the Avalon Stream signals themselves, with the "start of packet" and "end of packet" signals. AFAIK this register you are talking about is just used inside the TSE to discard frames that are too long.