[ethmac] FW: exchanging data trough the Ethernet card.

[Andrea Aizza <Andrea.Aizza@epfl.ch>]

Hi, 

this is a copy of a email I sent some time ago. Maybe someone of you can help
me. 

Best Regards,

Andrea Aizza

-----FW: exchanging data trough the Ethernet card.-----

Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:10:53 +0200 (CEST)
From: Andrea Aizza <Andrea.Aizza@epfl.ch>
To: mgalela@vlsi.itb.ac.id, novan@vlsi.itb.ac.id
Subject: exchanging data trough the Ethernet card.

Dear OPENCORE friends,

I have never worked with Ethernet protocol but I need about 15Mbps from an FPGA
device and a PC. One idea I thought today to implement a `null modem` based
connection from the PC to the device (just two devices - no hubs or friends) I
have just 2 questions:

1) Assuming they claim 10/100Mbps on those Eth cards, can you really reach
those speeds? 
2) What I have now is a parallel connection (birirectional ECP connection -
IEEE 1284) PC<->device. As far as you know is it quite harder to design an HDL
code to handle a Ethernet data exchange and the corresponding software (may be I
can find some libraries/drivers for handling the software part)? 

Thank you for your help and Best Regards,

Andrea Aizza.

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