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Ethernet

MAC, PCS, PMA layers — from 10G to 800G and the verification IP that ships them.

Expert 4h 20m readNetworkingSerdes

From 10BASE-T to 800 Gigabit Ethernet — every datacenter, every networking chip, every cloud SoC has Ethernet in it.

What you'll learn

  • MAC layer: framing, MTU, jumbo frames
  • PHY layers across speeds: 1G, 10G, 25G, 100G, 400G, 800G
  • MII variants: GMII, XGMII, XLGMII, SGMII
  • FCS, preamble, SFD
  • VLAN, QoS, flow control
  • Verifying a MAC against an open-source Ethernet model