The Intel® Cyclone® V SoC Development Kit provides a design environment for rapid development of custom ARM® processor-based SoC designs utilizing Intel's low-cost, low-power Cyclone V FPGA fabric. The kit supports a variety of features including:

  • Processor and FPGA prototyping and power measurement
  • Industrial networking protocol
  • Motor control application*
  • Acceleration of image/video processing applications*
  • PCI Express® (PCIe®) x4 lanes (Endpoint or Root Port) with transfer rates up to 1,000 Mbps

*Application-specific daughtercards for various I/O and interface standards are available separately.

 

Order information

product name Cyclone V SoC Development Kit
order code DK-DEV-5CSXC6NES
The Cyclone V SoC Development Kit includes a 5CSXFC6D6F31C8NES SoC.

Contents of the development kit

The Cyclone V SoC FPGA Development Kit includes:

 

Cyclone V SX Development Board
    On-board device:
    Cyclone V SX SoC-5CSXFC6D6F31C8NES (SoC)
    MAX® V CPLD ~5M2210ZF256C4N (system controller)
    MAX II CPLD~EPM570GF100 (embedded USB-Blaster™ II cable)
  FPGA configuration source
    Embedded USB-Blaster II (JTAG) cable
    EPCQ Flash (PFL)
    Hard Processor System (HPS)
  FPGA memory
    1 GB DDR3 SDRAM (32-bit)
  FPGA I/O interface
    Two 10/100 Ethernet PHYs (EtherCAT)
    One PCIe Gen1 x4 female connector
    General Purpose High Speed Mezzanine Card (HSMC) 4-channel transceiver,
      16-channel Tx LVDS, 16-channel Rx LVDS
    1 SDI channel
    Four SMA connectors per transceiver channel
    4 push buttons
    2 switches
    4 LEDs
  HPS boot source
    128MB QSPI Flash
    Removable microSD card flash
    FPGA
  HPS memory
    1 Gigabyte DDR3 SDRAM (32-bit) with error correction code (ECC)
    128MB QSPI Flash
    microSD card socket (includes 4 gigabyte microSD card flash device)
  HPS I/O interface
    1 x USB 2.0 On-the-Go (OTG)
    1 x 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE/100GbE/1000GbE)
    1 CAN
    1x UART (UART-USB bridge)
    1 real-time clock (with battery backup)
    1 character LCD (2 lines)
    1/2 Channel 20-Bit Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converter (Linear Technology LTC2422)
    4 push buttons
    4 switches
    4 LEDs
  clock
    Programmable clock generator for FPGA reference clock input (4 outputs)
    125 MHz LVDS oscillator for FPGA reference clock input
    148.5 MHz LVDS programmable VCXO (Voltage Controlled Crystal Oscillator) for FPGA reference clock input
    50 MHz single-ended oscillator for FPGA and MAX V FPGA clock input
    100 MHz single-ended oscillator for MAX V FPGA configuration clock input
    SMA input for HPS clock
  power supply
    Laptop DC power input adapter (14-20V)
  System monitor circuit
    Power (voltage, current, wattage)
  HSMC breakout board
  HSMC loopback board
  housing
    Board dimensions 8.19” x 5.22”
Cyclone V GX FPGA Development Kit Software Contents (downloadable from < Related Documents >)
design example
  Board Test System (BTS)*
  Golden System Reference Design with Board Update Portal Web Server
Related Documents (see < Related Documents >)
SoC Embedded Design Suite Subscription Edition
  ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) Altera Edition Toolkit
  Hardware/software hand-off tools
  Linux runtime software for application development
  SoC hardware library for firmware development
  Application example
Free Software for Quartus® II Software Web Edition v13.0

Related Documents

document explanation

Cyclone V SoC Development Kit User Guide (PDF)

Learn how to set up the Cyclone V SoC development board and use the included software.

Cyclone V SoC Development Board Reference Manual (PDF)

Contains details about the board's components and interfaces.
kit installation
(Windows) (via FTP)
kit installation
(Linux) (via FTP)

Reference Manuals, User Guides, Quick Start Guides, Bill of Materials, Layouts, PCBs, Schematics, Board Update Portal (BUP) Example Files, Board Test System (BTS) Example Files, etc. Full install of all files. BUP has been upgraded to use the Qsys system integration tools.

Note: This kit installation works with the Quartus II Development Software Web Edition v13.0.

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