This designs demonstrates how to use the Ethernet port using a Nios II system on the DE2 board. It sends packets, and using a loopback Ethernet cable, it ll receive the same packets which are then displayed. It also works if the board is connected to another packet source.
ADM6993F/FXFiber to Fast Ethernet Converter (TS1000 CPE Complied)
The ADM6993F/FX is a single chip integrating two 10/100 Mbps MDIX TX/FX transceivers, a three-port 10/100M Ethernet L2 switch controller, and one OAM engine to meet demanding applications, including Fiber-to-Ethernet media converters, especially the fiber to the home (FTTH) media converters. The ADM6993F/FX feature set includes link pass through (LPT), TS1000 OAM frame receiving/processing/transmitting, programmable link status LED display, various loop-back modes, and one configurable MII ports for snooping/inserting OAM frame from/to 100Fx. The ADM6993FX is the environmentally friendly “green” package version.
