10 gigbit ethernet mac core

[vnra300]

Hi all,

I would like to know if anyone in this forum is familiar with the 10
gigabit ethernet mac controller. purpose of the core, how it functions
etc.

If so please let me know

Thanks,
vnra300

 

[pranav]

Hi,
A 10 Gig Ethernet MAC can have various interfaces like XGMII(10-gig
MII) or XAUI (A variant of XGMII to reduce the pin count). I am not
sure which one are you looking for.
well the purpose of this core ....it will behave as a MAC with 10
gig support...(refer to IEEE-802.3 specs + XGMII draft which you
should get form IEEE site.)

I suppose there are certain vendors who have these cores.

Regads,
Pranav
"vnra300" <vnra300@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<57b1280d3091dcb6c120a84e7f4bfed3@localhost.talkaboutprogramming.com>...

Hi all,

I would like to know if anyone in this forum is familiar with the 10
gigabit ethernet mac controller. purpose of the core, how it functions
etc.

If so please let me know

Thanks,
vnra300

 

I suppose there are certain vendors who have these >cores.

That's true, but they're almost certainly proprietary designs. I
designed a protocol sublayer for 10G Ethernet (taking data from the
XGMII to XAUI interfaces); there's no way we could just hand out
Verilog code, though -- we sell it for profit. The same is almost
certainly true for the 10G Ethernet MAC with any vendor.

The original poster's question was perhaps asking just for general
information, though. IEEE 802.3 is indeed the place to go;
specifically clauses 2, 4, and 31. It's a pretty complicated subject.


Doug

Doug