What is Altera Cyclone V?

The Altera® Cyclone® V SoC Development Kit offers a quick and simple approach to develop custom ARM®processor-based SOC designs accompanied by Altera’s low-power, low-cost Cyclone V FPGA fabric. This kit supports a wide range of functions, such as: Processor and FPGA prototyping and power measurement.

What is Cyclone V chip?

Cyclone® V SoC FPGA devices offers a powerful dual-core ARM* Cortex*-A9 MPCore* processor surrounded by a rich set of peripherals and a hardened memory controller. The FPGA fabric, with up to 110K LEs (logic elements), is connected to the hard processor system (HPS) through a high-speed >100 Gbps interconnect backbone.

What is the Cyclone V chip and where is it used?

Enhanced with integrated transceivers and hard memory controllers, the Cyclone V devices are suitable for applications in the industrial, wireless and wireline, military, and automotive markets. and logos are trademarks of Altera Corporation and registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries.

What is Altera FPGA?

The main product lines from Altera were the Stratix, mid-range Arria, and lower-cost Cyclone series system on a chip field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); the MAX series complex programmable logic device and non-volatile FPGAs; Intel Quartus Prime design software; and Enpirion PowerSoC DC-DC power solutions. …

Does Intel own Altera?

In June of 2015, chip behemoth Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) announced that it intended to buy Altera, a major supplier of chips known as field programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, for $16.7 billion. Let’s check up on how Altera, now known as Intel’s programmable solutions group (PSG), is doing.

What is FPGA HPS?

FPGA Portion The HPS contains a microprocessor unit (MPU) subsystem with single or dual ARM. ® Cortex™-A9 MPCore. processors, flash memory controllers, SDRAM L3 Interconnect, on-chip memories, support peripherals, interface peripherals, debug capabilities, and phase-locked loop (PLLs).

What is a FPGA board?

FPGA stands for field-programmable gate array. Those circuits, or arrays, are groups of programmable logic gates, memory, or other elements. With a standard chip, such as the Intel Curie module in an Arduino board or a CPU in your laptop, the chip is fully baked. It can’t be programmed; you get what you get.

What is Altera Cyclone IV?

The Cyclone IV GX FPGA architecture consists of up to 150K vertically arranged logic elements (LEs), 6.5 Mbits of embedded memory arranged as 9-Kbit (M9K) blocks, and 360 18 x 18 embedded multipliers. New to the Cyclone series, Cyclone IV GX FPGAs feature integrated transceivers at up to 3.125 Gbps.

Which is better Xilinx or Altera?

If you study the architectures of the Altera and Xilinx chips, you will probably find Altera chips more interesting and more amenable to subtle optimizations. Xilinx tends to be more technology-oriented and have better links to applications by offering more chips with custom circuits that implement specific functions.

Who bought Altera?

Intel
Intel and Altera announced on June 1, 2015, that they had entered into a definitive agreement under which Intel would acquire Altera for $54 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $16.7 billion.

How are HPS and FPGA connected?

HPS supports communication with the FPGA/peripherals through the L3 interconnect, which is connected to the HPS’ (DDR3) SDRAM Controller.

What is HPS memory?

The hard processor system (HPS) SDRAM controller subsystem provides efficient access to external SDRAM for the ARM® Cortex™-A9 microprocessor unit (MPU) subsystem, the level 3 (L3) interconnect, and the FPGA fabric. The SDRAM controller provides an interface between the FPGA fabric and HPS.