Interfacing LAN91C111 with spartan 3 using EPC

Hi all ,

I am about to start a designing a system using Spartan 3 FPGA running
microblaze and interface it with SMSC LAN91C111 using the Embedded
peripheral controller core provided by xilinx. Just before starting I
thought it worth checking if some one had any problems using such a
setup ?

BR
Rate

ratemonotonic wrote:
> Hi all ,
> 
> I am about to start a designing a system using Spartan 3 FPGA running
> microblaze and interface it with SMSC LAN91C111 using the Embedded
> peripheral controller core provided by xilinx. Just before starting I
> thought it worth checking if some one had any problems using such a
> setup ?
> 
> BR
> Rate

Have you considered putting an ethernet MAC in the FPGA ? I believe 
Xilinx has some Ethernet IP that connects to the microblaze.

On 9 Dec, 06:42, Arlet Ottens <usene...@c-scape.nl> wrote:
> ratemonotonic wrote:
> > Hi all ,
>
> > I am about to start a designing a system using Spartan 3 FPGA running
> > microblaze and interface it with SMSC LAN91C111 using the Embedded
> > peripheral controller core provided by xilinx. Just before starting I
> > thought it worth checking if some one had any problems using such a
> > setup ?
>
> > BR
> > Rate
>
> Have you considered putting an ethernet MAC in the FPGA ? I believe
> Xilinx has some Ethernet IP that connects to the microblaze.

Yes , It would be a more strainght forward route but its costs license
fee.

I dont mind paying license fee , but I dont really know the
implications as I havn't bought IP for FPGA before.