Research Article
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 |
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