Hi Zygot, thanks for your answer.
So for the moment I can leave aside the bottleneck of SPI interface coming in between to Ethernet .
Good that you can confirm that it has no programming/reprogramming capability. This was also my understanding when I went through the manual and schematics.
My aim is to use the EMSK (EM Starter Kit) for our programming platform making use of its ARC EM4 cores. Given the deadlines, this itself is a huge project for me.
EMSK has no Ethernet hardware interface, thats why I'm trying to get Pmod as a piggyback to get an Ethernet hardware interface, so that a stack implementation(UDP, TCP ) can be written/ported and tested on ARC EM4. instead of Ethernet driver an SPI driver shall do the job of communicating with Pmod Microchip and con
So when Digilent writes :"Users must provide their own protocol stack software (such as TCP/IP). Digilent provides a set of libraries providing Ethernet support that is available in the Pmod NIC100 Resource Center. "
This statement is not so clear to me. Do they mean this 'protocol stack software' in my case goes into my EM4 (Master) or in Microchip NIC100 (Slave)?
I would appreciate any kind of tips or also if some one has used this Pmod like this
Thanks
Dhanuraj