Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet

Re:Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet by picture on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @11:36PM (#45756174)

Yeah but like FPGA fabric can also be programmed (sometimes by actual software like on Zynq or Stratix SoCs), would you call those bit banging too?

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Re:Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet by ssl-3 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @12:14AM (#45756371)

I don't have any hands-on experience with FPGAs. I only know about as much about FPGAs as I do about red herring.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet by KeplerBoy on Thursday October 30, 2025 @04:43AM (#45757712)

I feel most people would unless you use some Hard IP for the interface. Like you don't bit-bang PCIe when you feed a wide AXI stream at a few MHz into the PCIe block where it get's serialized and put onto the lanes at the signalling rate (multiple Gigahertz, depending on generation).

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