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20 years ago

Standard Protocol for ethernet to PC data transfer

I just started my internship and I haven't really worked with FPGA's before. I have a borad with Stratix chip on it and the board has the ability to communicate to a PC via ethernet. My que...
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originally posted by ajs52@Oct 20 2005, 08:00 AM

so lets say i have a lot of data coming in to the board and i want to stream it all to pc after it gets processed, via the ethernet...would that work?

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Define "a lot of data".

Typically, people are seeing about 400-700 kbytes/second data transfer rates with Nios2 and the LAN91C111 chip.

There are some options that could speed things up a little, but they cost a bunch.