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Cyclone® V FPGA and SoC FPGA

Cyclone® V FPGA has lower total power than the previous generation, efficient logic integration capabilities, integrated transceiver variants, and SoC FPGA variants with an ARM*-based hard processor system (HPS) recommended for edge-centric applications and designs.

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Cyclone® V E FPGA

Cyclone® V GX FPGA

Cyclone® V GT FPGA

Cyclone® V SE SoC FPGA

Cyclone® V SX SoC FPGA

Cyclone® V ST SoC FPGA

Cyclone® V E FPGA
Optimized for low system cost and power for a wide spectrum of general logic and DSP applications.

Cyclone® V GX FPGA
Optimized for low cost and power for 614 Mbps to 3.125 Gbps transceiver applications.

Cyclone® V GT FPGA
FPGA industry’s lowest cost and power for 6.144 Gbps transceiver applications.

Cyclone® V SE SoC FPGA
Integrated ARM* Cortex*-A9 MPCore Processor System optimized for low system cost and power for a wide spectrum of general logic and DSP applications.

Cyclone® V SX SoC FPGA
Integrated ARM* Cortex*-A9 MPCore Processor System optimized for low cost and power for 614 Mbps to 3.125 Gbps transceiver applications.

Cyclone® V ST SoC FPGA
Integrated ARM* Cortex*-A9 MPCore Processor System - FPGA industry’s low cost and power for 6.144 Gbps transceiver applications.

Cyclone® V SoC FPGA Architecture

Cyclone V FPGAs continue the Cyclone device family tradition of an unprecedented combination of low power, high functionality, and low cost. Use this device to achieve flexibility, low cost, and low power across various applications.

Benefits

Tailored for High-Volume, Cost-Sensitive Applications

With Cyclone V FPGA, you can get the power, cost, and performance levels you need for high-volume applications, including protocol bridging, motor control drives, broadcast video converters and capture cards, and handheld devices. 

SoC FPGA–Your Customizable ARM* Processor-Based SoC

SoC FPGA lets you reduce system power, system cost, and board space by integrating an HPS—consisting of processors, peripherals, and memory controller—with the FPGA fabric using a high-bandwidth interconnect backbone. The combination of the HPS with Intel's 28 nm low-power FPGA fabric provides the performance and ecosystem of an applications-class ARM processor with the flexibility, low cost, and low power consumption of the Cyclone V FPGA.

Reducing Total System Cost Through Integration

Because Cyclone V FPGA integrates an abundance of hard intellectual property (IP) blocks, you can differentiate and do more with less overall system cost, power and design time. Key hard IP blocks include the following:

  • Hard memory controllers supporting 400 MHz DDR3 SDRAM with optional error correction code (ECC) support.
  • PCI Express* (PCIe) 2.0 with multifunction support.
  • Variable-precision digital signal processing (DSP) blocks.
  • HPS Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor.

Industry-Leading Low Power and Low System Cost

  • Up to 40 percent lower total power compared with Cyclone® IV GX FPGA.
  • Lowest power serial transceivers with 88 mW maximum power consumption per channel at 5 Gbps.
  • Over 4,000 MIPS (Dhrystone 2.1 benchmark) processing performance for under 1.8 W (for SoC FPGA).
  • Lower power due to increased use of hard IP blocks.

Also, the FPGA requires only two power regulator voltages and comes in wire-bond packages with small form factor options, lowering the cost.

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 FPGA integrates many hard IP blocks, you can lower your overall system cost, power and design time. SoC FPGA is more than the sum of its parts. How the processor and FPGA systems work together matters greatly to your system’s performance, reliability, and flexibility. It is 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 adaptive debugging for unmatched visibility and control of the whole device.

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