Virtex-4FX and ethernet mac

Hallo,
I'm planning to buy a development board based on Virtex-4FX.

I have read about V-4FX that ethernet mac is inside the FPGA.

I should buy also the license to use it when I make a project into EDK for 
plb interface?

Many Thanks
Marco

You don't need a special license to use the embedded Virtex4 TriMode
Ethernet MAC.

Check out Gigabit System Reference Design (GSRD) such an EDK project:
http://www.xilinx.com/gsrd/

Paul

"Marco T." wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> I'm planning to buy a development board based on Virtex-4FX.
> 
> I have read about V-4FX that ethernet mac is inside the FPGA.
> 
> I should buy also the license to use it when I make a project into EDK for
> plb interface?
> 
> Many Thanks
> Marco

No, 
Ethernet MAC is hard core and it's free.

"Marco T." <marcotoschi@nospam.it> wrote in message 
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> Hallo,
> I'm planning to buy a development board based on Virtex-4FX.
>
> I have read about V-4FX that ethernet mac is inside the FPGA.
>
> I should buy also the license to use it when I make a project into EDK for 
> plb interface?
>
> Many Thanks
> Marco
>
>



Many Thanks to everyone for the replies.
Marco 

leevv wrote:
> No,
> Ethernet MAC is hard core and it's free.

But, be careful though, there isn't any s/w support for it in EDK yet.

Cheers,
Jon

"Jon Beniston" <jon@beniston.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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>
> leevv wrote:
>> No,
>> Ethernet MAC is hard core and it's free.
>
> But, be careful though, there isn't any s/w support for it in EDK yet.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>

Thanks Jon,

I was sure EDK supports the hardcore EMAC - but afer looking closer it seems 
that there is no support in edk7.1 :(

any info if it is included in EDK 8.1 ? or is it coming in some EDK 8.1 
service pack (like DDR2 support) ?

Antti