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hi to everyone...
i'm quite new to the fpga world. i'm doin an internship at a electronic company and they told me to post in some fpga forums about implementing ethernet on an fpga. the idea is that an electronic peripheral device is connected to the fpga board via ethernet. behin that fact i would like to know if its a big efford for a beginner to implement an ethernet IP core and if there are also open source ethernet cores and furthermore high level communication layers refering to the OSI model like ip or tcp. does anyone think it makes sense to implement it on an fpga or if its better to switch to some kind of embedded pc like the pc-104 or something. since i'm quite new to that stuff, are there developer platforms with wich you can develop using high level languages like C, since i'm quite fit using that language and i think it should be tedious learning VHDL or VERILOG. so what do you guys think? thanx for your time and your possible answers...
cheers, stefan

Not sure I'd try building an entire, fully-fledged IP stack in an FPGA unless it had a CPU core on it

But Ethernet is very do-able....so is frame checksum offloading in the FPGA.

-marc

Hello,

Have a look at this site for quite a bit of info on Ethernet. They have device info for chips to do it for you. Also a good links page to other stuff...

http://www.beyondlogic.org/

They also have quite a bit about USB as well.

Chris