Cyclone® V SoC FPGAs provide the industry's lowest system cost and power. The SoC FPGA high-performance levels are ideal for differentiating high-volume applications, such as industrial motor control drives, protocol bridging, video converter and capture cards, and handheld devices. SoC FPGAs come in a wide range of programmable logic densities with many system-level functions hardened in silicon — a dual-core ARM* Cortex*-A9 Hard Processor System (HPS), embedded peripherals, multiport memory controllers, serial transceivers, and PCI Express* (PCIe*) ports.
Family Variants
Cyclone® V SE SoC FPGA
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Cyclone® V SX SoC FPGA
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Cyclone® V ST SoC FPGA
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Benefits
ARM-Based HPS
The Cyclone V SoC FPGA HPS consists of a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore* processor, a rich set of peripherals, and a multiport memory controller shared with logic in the FPGA, giving you the flexibility of programmable logic and the cost savings of hard intellectual property (IP) due to:
- Single- or dual-core processor with up to 925 MHz maximum frequency.
- Hardened embedded peripherals eliminate the need to implement these functions in programmable logic, leaving more FPGA resources for application-specific custom logic and reducing power consumption.
- Hardened multiport memory controller, shared by the processor and FPGA logic, supports DDR2, DDR3, and LPDDR2 devices with integrated error correction code (ECC) support for high-reliability and safety-critical applications.
High-Bandwidth Interconnect
High-throughput datapaths between the HPS and FPGA fabric provide interconnect performance not possible in two-chip solutions. This tight integration provides:
- Over 100 Gbps peak bandwidth.
- Integrated data coherency.
- Significant system power savings by eliminating the external I/O paths between the processor and the FPGA.
Flexible FPGA Fabric
The FPGA logic fabric lets you differentiate your system by implementing custom IP or off-the-shelf preconfigured IP from Intel or its partners into your designs. This allows you to:
- Adapt quickly to varying or changing interface and protocol standards.
- Add custom hardware in the FPGA to accelerate time-critical algorithms and create a compelling competitive edge.
- Quickly deploy a custom ARM processor without the extensive design, verification, and non-recurring engineering (NRE) costs required in ASICs.
Architecture Matters
Because Cyclone V SoC FPGAs integrate many hard IP blocks, you can lower your overall system cost, power, and design time. SoC FPGAs are more than the sum or their parts. How the processor and FPGA systems work together matters greatly to your system’s performance, reliability, and flexibility. Intel® SoC FPGAs are designed to:
- Preserve the flexibility of processor boot or FPGA configuration sequence, system response to processor reset, and independent memory interfaces of a two-chip solution.
- Maintain data integrity and reliability with integrated ECC.
- Protect DRAM memory shared by the processor and FPGA with an integrated memory protection unit.
- Enable system-level debug with Intel’s FPGA-adaptive debugging for unmatched visibility and control of the whole device.
Not All SoC FPGAs Are Created Equal. Architecture Matters.
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Features
Cyclone V SoC FPGA Architecture
Cyclone® V SoC FPGAs offers a powerful dual-core ARM* Cortex*-A9 MPCore* processor surrounded by a rich set of peripherals and a hardened memory controller. The FPGA fabric, with up to 110K LEs (logic elements), is connected to the hard processor system (HPS) through a high-speed >100 Gbps interconnect backbone.
Design Tools
Intel® Quartus® Prime Software
The Intel Quartus® Prime Software Suite provides everything you need to design with Intel SoC FPGAs. It is a complete development package that comes with a user-friendly GUI and technology to help you turn your ideas into reality. The Intel Quartus Prime software includes productivity tools to make it easy to build your design, such as:
- Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Technology1
- Platform Designer (formerly Qsys)
- System Console debugging toolkit
- Transceiver Toolkit
- Timing Analyzer
- Power Analyzer
Intel® SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite
Jump start your firmware and application software development with our Intel® SoC FPGAs Embedded Development Suite (SoC EDS), a comprehensive tool suite with:
- Development tools
- Utility programs
- Run-time software
- Application examples
At the heart of SoC EDS is the exclusive ARM* Development Studio 5 (DS-5*) Intel SoC FPGA Edition. This toolkit combines the ARM DS-5 advanced multicore debugging capabilities with FPGA-adaptivity for unprecedented full-chip debugging visibility and control.
Ecosystem
Intel® SoC FPGAs are ARM* processor-based and inherit the strength of the ARM ecosystem. Intel, our ecosystem partners, and the Intel SoC FPGA user community provide a wide range of options to meet your SoC FPGA development needs.
Documentation and Support
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