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Altera_Forum
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10 years ago

network analyzer

Hey everybody. as a part of my studies i have to build an HW network analyzer, i will use the altera-DE2. at the begin i should get and receive eth packet (the information that i need is till leve...
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10 years ago

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Ethernet is not a simple stuff.. why not using an external usb-uart module?

For ethernet you need NIOS, an OS, etc..

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You won't need a nios for this project, all the logic can be done in hw. I doubt nios would be fast enough to analyse full speed ethernet. You can just instantiate an Avalon streaming ethernet core and analyse the packets as they arrive.