The Cyclone V GX Starter kit is an Evaluation Board (EVB) from Terasic based on Altera’s Cyclone V GX FPGA. The Cyclone V Starter Kit development board includes hardware such as Arduino Header, on-board USB Blaster, audio and video capabilities and much more
On further entries of the blog, I will be including several projects based on this EVB.
The Cyclone V Starter kit board features the following major component blocks:
- Cyclone V GX 5CGXFC5C6F27C7N Device
- 77K Programmable Logic Elements
- 4884 Kbits embedded memory
- Two Hard Memory Controllers
- Six 3.125G Transceivers
- FPGA configuration circuitry
- Quad Serial Configuration device – EPCQ256 on FPGA
- On-Board USB Blaster (Normal Type-B USB connector)
- Memory
- 4Gb LPDDR2 x32 bits data bus
- 4Mb SRAM x16 bits data bus
- Interfaces and expansion I/O
- UART to USB
- Micro SD Card Socket
- HSMC x 1(voltage levels: 2.5V), including 4-lanes 3.125G transceiver
- 2×20 GPIO Header (voltage levels: 3.3V)
- Arduino header, including analog pins
- SMA x 4 (DNI), one-lane 3.125G transceiver
- General user input / output
- 18 LEDs
- 10 Slide Switches
- 4 Debounced Push Buttons + 1 CPU reset Push Button
- Four 7-Segment displays
- Audio/Video
- HDMI TX, compatible with DVI v1.0 and HDCP v1.4
- 24-bit CODEC, Line-in, line-out, and microphone-in jacks
- ADC
- 12-Bit Resolution, 500Ksps Sampling Rate. SPI Interface.
- 8-Channel Analog Input. Input Range : 0V ~ 4.096V.
- Power
- 12V DC input
FPGA'er 