Open-Source Ethernet MAC IP Cores for FPGAs: Overview and Evaluation

Table 15

Ranking of 1 Gbit/s open-source Ethernet MACs in terms of high speed/low latency.

Rank	Project	Speed	Average TX latency (clock cycles)	Average RX latency (clock cycles)
1	Litex Liteeth	1 Gbit/s	10.09 ± 0.29	12.97 ± 0.16
2	Verilog-Ethernet	1 Gbit/s	11.00 ± 0.00	13.97 ± 0.17
3	P. Kerling MAC	1 Gbit/s	12.00 ± 0.00	16.91 ±  0.29
4	Opencores Ethernet Tri Mode	1 Gbit/s	13.00 ± 0.00	17.52 ± 2.85
5	WGE 100	1 Gbit/s	14.00 ± 0.00	14.99 ± 0.14
6	LeWiz LMAC1	1 Gbit/s	17.50 ± 1.12	278.86 ± 0.35