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10 years ago

Communication between FPGA and PC through Ethernet

Hi everyone, I'm trying to communicate between FGPA and my own laptop by setting up an Ethernet connection. The most simple thing I want to achieve first is to send a ping command from my FPGA ...
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10 years ago

Mohammad,

Yes you can upgrade it to support Different type of connections. I believe the tutorial is set up for what you mentioned but you can change it. I did it by using the nichestack tutorial and modifying the way it was establishing connection on the Nios side. The firmware will still be th same, you can also enable it to use dhcp when you hook it up to you network. You can make a server application on the pc side and let nios establish the connection. I can look for the tutorial I used when I did this.

-Trukng