Cyclone® V GT FPGA Development Kit
The Cyclone® V GT FPGA Development Kit can be used to prototype Cyclone® V GT FPGA or Cyclone® V GX FPGA applications. It offers a quick and simple way to develop low-cost and low-power FPGA system-level designs and achieve rapid results.
This kit supports a myriad of functionalities such as:
- FPGA prototyping
- FPGA power measurement
- Transceiver I/O performance up to 5.0 Gbps
- PCI Express* (PCIe) Gen2 x4 (at 5.0 Gbps per lane)
- Endpoint or rootport support
Table 1. Cyclone® V GT FPGA Development Kit Ordering Information
| Ordering Code | Find Distributor | Ordering Information |
|---|---|---|
| DK-DEV-5CGTD9N | Intel® Solutions Marketplace | The Cyclone® V GT FPGA Development Kit features a 5CGT–D9-C7N production silicon device. |
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Development Kit Contents
The Cyclone® V GT FPGA Development Kit features the following:
- Cyclone® V GT FPGA development board
- Featured devices
- Cyclone® V GT FPGA—5CGTFD9E5F35C7N
- MAX® V CPLD—5M2210ZF256 (System Controller)
- MAX® II CPLD—EPM570GT100C3N (On-Board USB Blaster™ II)
- MAX® II CPLD—EPM570ZM100 (ASSP CPLD footprint)
- Configuration
- Embedded USB-Blaster™ II (JTAG)
- Fast Passive Parallel (PFL)
- Intel EPCQ—EPCQ256SI16N (Quad Serial Configuration Device)
- Memory devices
- 384 MB x40 hard memory controller (HMC) DDR3 SDRAM with error correction code (ECC)
- 512 MB x64 soft memory controller (SMC) DDR3 SDRAM
- 1 Gb x16 sync flash
- Standard communication ports
- PCIe x4 edge connector
- Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
- One SMA clock output
- Two universal high-speed mezzanine card (HSMC) connectors, each with four high-speed serial transceiver channels
- One serial digital interface (SDI) channel —1 SMB for RX and 1 SMB for TX
- Channel shared with HSMA via resistor stuffing option
- Push buttons, DIP switches, and LEDs
- Clocking
- Programmable clock generator for FPGA reference clock input
- 125 MHz LVDS oscillator for FPGA reference clock input
- 148.5/148.35 MHz LVDS VCXO for FPGA reference clock input
- 50 MHz single-ended oscillator for FPGA and MAX® V CPLD clock input
- 100 MHz single-ended oscillator for MAX® V CPLD configuration clock input
- SMA input (LVPECL)
- Power
- Laptop DC Input 14 – 20 V adapter
- PCIe edge connector
- System monitoring circuit
- Power (Voltage, Current, Wattage)
- Mechanical
- PCIe card standard size (4.376" x 6.600")
- Cyclone® V GT FPGA Development Kit software content (downloadable from Table 2)
- Design examples
- PCIe loop back and reference design
- Board test system (BTS)*
- Board update portal (BUP)*
- Includes Nios® II embedded soft processor and Ethernet
- Complete documentation (see Table 2)
- Cyclone® V GT FPGA Kit ships with 1 year subscription to Development Kit Edition (DKE) of the Intel® Quartus® Prime design software (Windows platform only)
Table 2. Collateral for the Cyclone® V GT FPGA Development Kit
| Document | Description | Version |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclone® V GT FPGA Development Kit User Guide (PDF) | Information about setting up the Cyclone® V GT FPGA development board and using the included software. | 1.0 |
| Cyclone® V GT FPGA Development Board Reference Manual (PDF) | Detailed information about board components and interfaces. | 1.0 |
Kit Installation (exe) (Windows) Kit Installation (zip) (Linux) |
Full installation of all files including reference manual, user guide, quick start guide, BOM, layout, PCB, schematics, BUP example file, BTS example file, and others. | 13.0.0.11 |
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