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14 years ago

TSE_MAC and memory

Hi Guys, I've been building on examples and built a functioning ethernet. I can use the Nios for TCP TX/RX and i have interfaced some HDL for direct UDP TX. I'm currently developing on a...
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14 years ago

There are National chips already supported by TSE, but I would offer to use Micrel. Those PHYs are way much cheaper than National and Marvell, however You'll need to write a small driver for TSE to initialize it correctly.