Hi everybody. I am new in fpga programming. I want to connect my spartan-3e starter kit to the router to send and receive some packets. I have download the xge_mac core. I've read how it works but because a dont know a lot about programming it, i want to ask, do i have to run all the .v files that are inside the xge_mac/trunc/rtl/verilog folder? or just the xge_mac.v and then the tb_xge_mac.v files?
Thanks a lot!

I would very kindly suggest that you should start by reading the User Manual for the Spartan-3E Sarter Kit (xilinx ug230l.pdf) and especially review page 111 and 112 regarding the ethernet and phy connections for the 10/100 ethernet connections. Don't forget to download all the free examples for your board from xilinx website. If you want to use opencores ethernet RTL instead of the xilinx freeware softcore stuff, then you need to figure out how to connect the system side of the ethernet media access controller to something like a cpu that can run a tcp/ip software stack. Xilinx provides a free microblaze with their tools, or you might want to use the OpenCores OpenRISC, or one of the other opencores CPU designs, it's your choice.

thanks a lot for your advise!

thanks a lot for your advise!

thanks a lot for your advise!

thanks a lot for your advise!