Description

The Cyclone V Starter Kit presents a robust hardware design platform built around the Altera Cyclone V GX FPGA, which is optimized for the lowest cost and power requirement for transceiver applications with industry-leading programmable logic for ultimate design flexibility. With Cyclone V FPGAs, you can get the power, cost, and performance levels you need for high-volume applications including protocol bridging, motor control drives, broadcast video converter and capture cards, and handheld devices. The Cyclone V Starter Kit development board includes hardware such as Arduino Header, on-board USB Blaster, audio and video capabilities and much more. In addition, an on-board HSMC connector with high-speed transceivers allows for an even greater array of hardware setups. By leveraging all of these capabilities, the Cyclone V Starter Kit is the perfect solution for showcasing, evaluating, and prototyping the true potential of the Altera Cyclone V GX FPGA.

FPGA Device

• Cyclone V GX 5CGXFC5C6F27C7N Device
• 77K Programmable Logic Elements
• 4884 Kbits embedded memory
• Six Fractional PLLs
• Two Hard Memory Controllers
• Six 3.125G Transceivers

Configuration and Debug

• Quad Serial Configuration device – EPCQ256 on FPGA
• On-Board USB Blaster (Normal Type-B USB connector)
• JTAG and AS mode configuration supported

Memory Device

• 4Gb LPDDR2 x32 bits data bus
• 4Mb SRAM x16 bits data bus

Communication

• UART to USB

Expansion I/O

• HSMC x 1(voltage levels: 2.5V), including 4-lanes 3.125G transceiver
• 2x20 GPIO Header (voltage levels: 3.3V)
• Arduino header, including analog pins
• SMA x 4 (DNI), one-lane 3.125G transceiver

Display

• HDMI TX, compatible with DVI v1.0 and HDCP v1.4

Audio

• 24-bit CODEC, Line-in, line-out, and microphone-in jacks

Switches, Buttons, LED, and 7-Segments

• 18 LEDs
• 10 Slide Switches
• 4 Debounced Push Buttons
• 1 CPU reset Push Buttons
• Four 7-Segments

Micro SD Card Socket

• Provides SPI and 4-bit SD mode for SD Card access

ADC

• 12-Bit Resolution, 500Ksps Sampling Rate. SPI Interface.
• 8-Channel Analog Input. Input Range : 0V ~ 4.096V.

Power

• 12V DC input

Block Diagram