The Design of An Integrated MAC IP for IEEE 1394 and Ethernet

• Main Authors: Yu-Chia Chen, 陳昱嘉
• Other Authors: Jer-Min Jou
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43071211713808164377

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 電機工程學系碩博士班 === 90 === In the future digitalized life, both of IEEE 1394 and IEEE 802.3 protocols will be very important and widely applied. The former is adopted by all kinds of digital multimedia devices to obtain high-speed transmissions. The later has been often adapted to construct LANs, and will be popularized to construct WANs. Thus, it is an important issue to simplify the design flow and reduce the time-to-market for integrating these two protocols into the whole system (e.g. SoC). In this paper, we present a new MAC IP, which meets the both specifications of IEEE 1394 Link Layer and IEEE 802.3 MAC Layer. The proposed MAC IP accepts different input parameters, and cooperates with different IEEE 1394 or IEEE 802.3 physical layer to transmit data through the same MAC layer by the communication procedure of IEEE 1394 or IEEE 802.3 mode. Besides, when the user finishes setting up the parameters of out MAC IP, he will get a synthesizable Verilog HDL code; this Verilog HDL code can be added to the SoC design flow directly or be downloaded to one FPGA before integrating into one system. At the last of this thesis, we illustrate a design example of IEEE 1394 interface card with our MAC IP to show the practicability of our design.