This module implements the I/O portion of the MII management interface.
The output is delayed by 2 clocks in order to ensure that the external
level shifter has switched directions before we drive it. The latency
increase (around 16 ns) is not consequential, since we have around 300
ns from the rising edge of MDC before MDIO has to be valid.
On the other end, the timing requirements for MDIO driven by the STA are
very lenient (for them); MDIO only has to be valid for 10 ns on either
side of the rising edge of MDC. This effectively means we must sample
MDIO synchronously to MDC (not easy with nextpnr), or oversample by 50x.
Fortunately, we have a 125 MHz clock which the rest of the phty runs off
of. However, this basically makes 10x oversampling with the MII clock
impossible.
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2@gmail.com>
Sean Anderson