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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Simple Communication with FPGA Device over Ethernet Interface
Authors : Marcin Kucharczyk, Grzegorz Dziwoki
Published in: Computer Networks
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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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.