> > > > Do these exist? For a reasonable price? I looked around for a bit but > > couldn't immediately find anything... > > > > I would expect so. I've worked with a USB chip with a microcontroller > in it with like 1K words of program memory. An ethernet chip would > need more program memory, but surely it exists. > > If not, we should consider designing one. :)
Well, are we still thinking about having a 1000Mbit network, or does 100Mbit offer enough bandwidth? If 100Mbit is enough, then I think that we could probably just use http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1335&dDocName=en022889 the ENC28J60 is a 10/100 Ethernet PHY with an SPI interface. That could easily just attach to an FPGA, tiny micro, or anything else we want, because it contains built in buffers. In fact, we could have the "PCI" FPGA that is no longer needed (in this design. Correct?) do DSP decoding and SPI interface, and it talks to the big FPGA for video processing. Or just attach it to the big FPGA directly... nick _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
