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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

Sustained 100BaseT transfer speeds w/ uClinux 1.4

Hi, I'm interested in hearing from anyone that has made any timing measurements for a sustained data transfer over 100BaseT Ethernet when using the SMSC LAN91C111 I.C. that is installed on ...
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21 years ago

From my expereince working with embedded systems using this controller...

I would say you should be lucky getting 20 - 30MBits/sec...

Don't know what you have in mind needing such bandwidth..suspecting some

media apps...but if I would need ethernet performance I would

never go for a FPGA running a CPU and especially not using

the SMSC91C111 (o;

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