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