Questions on sending Ethernet traffic from an ECP5 Versa board, and what I have tried so far

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  • liteeth

    Small footprint and configurable Ethernet core

  • Hungry for more bandwidth (I will need several Mb/s at least for my full-scale setup), I have been looking into using ethernet to get my bits across faster. The plan is to put together a simple UDP stack that can spit out packets to the laptop, with no need to receive any traffic back on the FPGA board. The network link will be direct, using a CAT5E patch cable (no switch), and always connecting with the same remote computer so the IP and MAC addresses can be kept fixed. I have found several spots that have full MAC + PHY cores that should do the job: LiteEth, the Verilog Ethernet cores by Alex Forencich, and a few other projects that do not have much documentation.

  • verilog-ethernet

    Verilog Ethernet components for FPGA implementation

  • Hungry for more bandwidth (I will need several Mb/s at least for my full-scale setup), I have been looking into using ethernet to get my bits across faster. The plan is to put together a simple UDP stack that can spit out packets to the laptop, with no need to receive any traffic back on the FPGA board. The network link will be direct, using a CAT5E patch cable (no switch), and always connecting with the same remote computer so the IP and MAC addresses can be kept fixed. I have found several spots that have full MAC + PHY cores that should do the job: LiteEth, the Verilog Ethernet cores by Alex Forencich, and a few other projects that do not have much documentation.

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  • ethernet

    ethernet experiments on the ECP5-versa (by C-Elegans)

  • Hungry for more bandwidth (I will need several Mb/s at least for my full-scale setup), I have been looking into using ethernet to get my bits across faster. The plan is to put together a simple UDP stack that can spit out packets to the laptop, with no need to receive any traffic back on the FPGA board. The network link will be direct, using a CAT5E patch cable (no switch), and always connecting with the same remote computer so the IP and MAC addresses can be kept fixed. I have found several spots that have full MAC + PHY cores that should do the job: LiteEth, the Verilog Ethernet cores by Alex Forencich, and a few other projects that do not have much documentation.

  • axis_udp

    This repository contains simple implementation of UDP/IP stack with 64-bit AXI-Stream interface. ICMP and ARP requests are partially supported. The project was tested on Xilinx 7-series FPGA with 10G Ethernet MAC IP-core

  • Hungry for more bandwidth (I will need several Mb/s at least for my full-scale setup), I have been looking into using ethernet to get my bits across faster. The plan is to put together a simple UDP stack that can spit out packets to the laptop, with no need to receive any traffic back on the FPGA board. The network link will be direct, using a CAT5E patch cable (no switch), and always connecting with the same remote computer so the IP and MAC addresses can be kept fixed. I have found several spots that have full MAC + PHY cores that should do the job: LiteEth, the Verilog Ethernet cores by Alex Forencich, and a few other projects that do not have much documentation.

  • Verilog_UDP_TCP

    Module giải mã và đóng gói cho các giao thức IP/TCP+UDP. Viết bằng Verilog. Đề tài thực hiện cho Đồ án thiết kế luận lý.

  • Hungry for more bandwidth (I will need several Mb/s at least for my full-scale setup), I have been looking into using ethernet to get my bits across faster. The plan is to put together a simple UDP stack that can spit out packets to the laptop, with no need to receive any traffic back on the FPGA board. The network link will be direct, using a CAT5E patch cable (no switch), and always connecting with the same remote computer so the IP and MAC addresses can be kept fixed. I have found several spots that have full MAC + PHY cores that should do the job: LiteEth, the Verilog Ethernet cores by Alex Forencich, and a few other projects that do not have much documentation.

  • The chip also supports SPI and I2C though, but I have not tried that yet as it requires some more fiddling on the PC side regarding drivers (D2XX) and libraries (LibMPSSE). I figured that ethernet would provide the biggest bandwidth improvement, but it is considerably more complicated than the other options.

  • hVHDL_gigabit_ethernet

    VHDL library for synthesizable minimal gigabit ethernet with RGMII interface, minimal ethernet, ip and udp header parsers.

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