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Simple Communication with FPGA Device over Ethernet Interface

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Individual components of the communication system can be implemented in different environments on the stage of design and prototyping. Some of them are simulated in a high-level language environment, like matlab, and some are implemented in a target device, FPGA or signal processor, using evaluation boards. The verification of hardware implementation needs the communication interface sufficiently fast to transmit high amount of data. The Ethernet interface widely available on modern boards seems to be useful. The paper presents a set of modules, compiled as applications as well as implemented in FPGA, used to send data between PC and FPGA device over Ethernet omitting the TCP/IP protocol stack. The data are send and received by direct access to the Ethernet frames. Simple transmission protocol with acknowledgment was proposed to provide reliable data transmission.

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  1. Institute of Electronics, Silesian University of Technology, ul. Akademicka 16, 44-100, Gliwice, Poland

    Marcin Kucharczyk & Grzegorz Dziwoki

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Silesian University of Technology, ul. Akademicka 16, 41-100, Gliwice, Poland

    Andrzej Kwiecień

  2. Institute of Informatics, Silesian University of Technology, ul. Akademicka 16, 44-100, Gliwice, Poland

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Kucharczyk, M., Dziwoki, G. (2013). Simple Communication with FPGA Device over Ethernet Interface. In: Kwiecień, A., Gaj, P., Stera, P. (eds) Computer Networks. CN 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 370. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38865-1_30

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