embedded ethernet
hello:
i´m in my last year of university and now i´m working in my thesis and i´m trying to develop an embedded system able to transmit some medical signal via ethernet using an 8051 core micro and a RTL8019 nic.
For a while i have some problems understanding nic´s performance, could somebody help me?
Which mode of work do you suggest? Almost everybody talk about DMA access but i don´t completely understand it on RTL. I read lines that Jeremy Bentham dedicate to RTL in "Lean TCP/IP..." but i didn´t understand what does he exactly did...? I do not understand why to connect the 5th line of address (latching?)
Please, i need help, i´m spanish speaking, then , sorry my english...