TerasIC NET

ETHERNET-HSMC Card

Overview

The Terasic HSMC-NET is a Gigabit Ethernet transceiver with a High Speed Mezzanine Connector (HSMC) interface. It offers network transfers of up to 1 Gbps with the host board using a HSMC connector. Also, it provides a fully integrated Ethernet solution enabling fast implementation design, shortening development times, and allows you to focus on the core functions of the system design. Lastly, the HSMC-NET can be connected any HSMC/HSTC interfaces.

Specification

• One HSMC connector for interface conversion, which is fully compatible with Cyclone III Starter Kit and DE3 host boards
• Duel-Port Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet transceiver Supports GMII/MII/RGMII/TBI MAC interfaces for direct connection to a MAC/Switch port
• Dynamically configurable to support 10Mbps, 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) or 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation
• Uses standard Cat 5 UTP (unshielded twisted pair) cabling
• Requires a 25-MHz reference clock driven from a dedicated oscillator
• Complete Reference Design
• Compatible with TerasIC C5G (P0150)

Resources

Documents

Title	Version	Size(KB)	Date Added	Download
HSMC-NET_UserGuide	-	2472	2009-06-24

Block Diagram of Board Functionality

The HSMC-NET board connection to the Altera DE3 -Stratix III Development Board

Kit Contents

The package of the HSMC-NET board includes

• One HSMC-NET Board
• One System CD
  (The CD contains technical documents of the HSMC-NET daughter board, and reference designs with full source code.)

Reference Designs

The HSMC-NET CD includes a reference design. It shows how to create a simple server on the Ethernet board using the DE3 FPGA board including full source code. The design includes 3 main parts in creating the server:

1. Terasic DE3 System Builder
2. Quartus II SOPC Builder
3. Nios II

Code: P0038