Overview
The Beryll Board is an evaluation board featuring the Cyclone® V GX FPGA. By using this kit, customers can evaluate various functions of Cyclone® V GX FPGA before designing their own products.
In addition, this kit is equipped with various interfaces and connectors for interface expansion, so it can be used as a jig for product evaluation. As for the external memory interface, it is used in many situations such as evaluation of DDR 3 hard memory controller mounted on FPGA, interface evaluation by expanding various daughter cards to HSMC, and use as a product evaluation environment as a jig. We will help you with your development.
Product Specifications
| FPGA | 5CGXFC4C6F27C7N |
| configuration | On-board Intel® FPGA download cable, EPCS configuration device |
| USB 2.0 | EZ-USB FX2LP™ |
| memory | DDR3 SDRAM(32bit)* / FLASH / SRAM |
| audio | 24bit audio codec |
| ethernet | 10/100/1000 Ethernet |
| interface | RS232C (D-sub 9 pin) / SMA for clock input |
| Expansion connector | Equipped with 1 HSMC |
| Display equipment | 7 segments, LED (8 for users), LCD (optional, must be purchased separately) |
* DDR3 SDRAM can use Cyclone V GX FPGA hard memory controller
Deliverables
Beryll board, AC adapter, USB cable, spacer, download URL guide
Introduction of various detailed functions
FPGA
Beryll's Cyclone® V GX FPGA is a low-cost FPGA using Intel's 28nm process technology. Equipped with 40% lower power consumption than conventional products, a new internal architecture, and a transceiver capable of transmitting performance bandwidths up to 3.125 Gbps, it contributes to reducing the total cost of your system and improving system performance.
| device | Equivalent number of LEs (K) |
M10K memory (Kb) |
MLABs (Kb) |
variable precision DSP block |
Number of PLLs | number of transceivers | A user I/O |
| 5CGXC4 | 50 | 2,500 | 295 | 70 | 6 | 6 | 336 |
memory
Beryll has DDR3 SDRAM, SRAM and FLASH. By using these, it is possible to implement the embedded processor IP core Nios® II, develop prototypes for various embedded equipment products, and use them as jigs.
| kinds | Manufacturer | model number | capacity |
| DDR3 | Micron | MT41J64M16JT | 1Gbit |
| FLASH | Micron | JS28F256M29 | 256Mbit |
| SRAM | IDT | IDT71V416S10PHG | 4Mbit |
Supports multiport memory controller hard IP blocks
Beryll supports multi-port memory controller hard IP blocks from Cyclone® V FPGAs. The hard memory controller includes command/data reordering and lookahead bank management to reduce idle cycles and increase throughput. This makes it possible to improve and optimize the performance of the entire system.
interface
Beryll is equipped with various interfaces such as USB 2.0 , Ethernet , RS-232C, 24bit Audio Codec, HSMC and interfaces for expansion. By using these interfaces, the customer can use this board as a pseudo circuit evaluation or jig for the final product.
demo
It is possible to carry out various demonstrations using Beryll. It is possible to carry out various demonstrations using image processing software and FPGA IP cores designed by Macnica.
USB2.0 video class demonstration
You can see a reference demonstration of HDMI to USB 2.0 uncompressed SD video streaming (480p / 60ps) incorporating the USB video class driver developed by Macnica. You can also purchase the board and driver used in this demo. We also offer contracted development according to customer requests. Please feel free to contact us.
Evaluation environment
Beryll board
Microtronix HDMI TX/RX HSMC daughter card
Video playback equipment, host PC
