Real Time FPGA Communication System Using Ethernet for Robotics

Abstract

In this paper, Ethernet bridging on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) is being discussed. Ethernet has been used widely in the embedded design industry nowadays. The transferring data between FPGAs are essential with the advancement of embedded system technologies. Ethernet bridging between FPGAs has been chosen because its reliability on transferring data. There are a lot of companies producing FPGA boards, one of it is ALTERA. ALTERA has manufactured different kinds of boards to suite the requirement of engineers nowadays. One of the examples of it is the DE2-115 FPGA board. This board has a soft-core processor in it which is called Nios II. Network bridging on DE2-115 FPGA requires the programming of the Nios II. In this paper, the network bridge system on FPGA is set up and an input which is the data is send through the network. The result expected from the experiment is the input is properly displayed and it is send successfully in through the network.