Cyclone® V E FPGA Development Kit

The Cyclone® V E FPGA Development Kit offers a comprehensive general purpose development platform for many markets and applications, including industrial networking, military, and medical applications.

The kit features a Cyclone® V device and a multitude of on-board resources including multiple banks of DDR3 and LPDDR2 memory, LCD character display, LEDs, user switches, USB, and RJ-45 connectors. The Cyclone® V E FPGA Development Kit gives industrial equipment designers greater flexibility in implementing real-time Ethernet communications with Industrial Ethernet intellectual property (IP) cores.

Table 1. Ordering Information

Ordering Code Check Distributor Availability Device
DK-DEV-5CEA7N

Mouser

DigiKey

 5CEFA7F31I7N
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Table 2. Development Kit Contents and Features

Parameters Hardware
Device
  • Cyclone® V E FPGA - 5CEFA7F31I7N
  • MAX® V CPLD - 5M2210ZF256I5N (system controller)
  • MAX® II CPLD - EPM240M100I5N (embedded Altera® FPGA Download Cable II)
Features and Connectors

RJ-45 for Ethernet

UART interface

General user input/output

  • User control
  • Four pushbuttons
  • Five LEDs
  • Four DIP switches
  • 2x Resets (CPU reset, Dev Clear)
  • LCD: Character LCD (16x2)

Configuration:

  • On-board Altera® FPGA Download Cable II (USB, PHY, MAX V CPLD)
  • JTAG direct via JTAG header
Memory Memory devices
  • DDR3 x32 at 300 MHz (soft memory controller)
  • LPDDR2 x16 (soft memory controller)
  • Flash (512 Mb)
  • SSRAM (18 Mb)
  • EEPROM (64 Kb)
Cables and Adapters AC adapter power cables
Software A one-year license for the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition design software is included with the purchase of the kit. Refer to the Software Installation and Licensing for more information
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Table 3. Documentation

Design Files Content Descriptions Version
User Guide › Information about setting up the Cyclone® V E FPGA development board and using the included software. 1.1
Board Reference Manual › Detailed information about board components and interfaces. 1.1
Kit Installation (ZIP) › A single installation file containing:
  • User Guide - Contains the user guide
  • Design Files - Contains schematics, and layout, Assembly, Bill of Materials
  • Board Test System: BTS GUI, Power GUI and Clock GUI
  • Golden Top project for pinout assignments management
  • Design Examples: Memory, XCVR, GPIO and PCIe Gen4
Download and unzip the Design Files first, then install the Board Test System Note: You will need to install Quartus® Prime Lite Edition software		 12.1.1.0
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