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9 years ago

SoC FPGA Ethernet Performance

Hi, I have application that needs to transfer 1 gigabit/s of data generated by the FPGA over Ethernet. FPGA generated data would be written to HPS's DDR3-memory. The data would be transferred o...
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9 years ago

With DE1-Soc (Cyclone V, 1 Gbps Ethernet) I get 500 MBps of effective datarate with Linux. You have some overhead in different layers when using ethernet. If you are looking for 1 gigabit maybe you have to use 2 ethernet ports.