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Chapter 13: Interfacing to Other Cores

If both cores have been generated with the optional management interface, the MDIO port can be connected to that of the Tri-Speed Ethernet MAC core, allowing the MAC to access the embedded configuration and status registers of the Ethernet 1000BASE-X PCS/PMA or SGMII core.

Due to the Receiver Elastic Buffer in the core, the entire GMII (transmitter and receiver paths) is synchronous to a single clock domain. Therefore, the txcoreclk and rxcoreclk inputs of the Tri-Speed Ethernet MAC core can always be driven from the same clock source.

Figure 13-7illustrates the Tri-Mode Ethernet MAC core generated with the optional clock enable circuitry. This is the most efficient way to connect the two cores together in terms of clock resource usage and so is recommended. See the Tri-Mode Ethernet MAC User Guide for more information.

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