Description

The Altera® Arria® V SoC Development Kit offers a quick and simple approach to develop custom ARM® processor-based SoC designs. Altera’s midrange, transceiver-based Arria V FPGA fabric provides the highest bandwidth with the lowest total power for midrange applications such as:

• Remote radio units*
• 10G/40G line cards*
• Medical imaging
• Broadcast studio equipment.
• Acceleration of image- and video-processing applications*
• PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen2 x4 lanes (endpoint or rootport)

*Application-specific daughtercards, available separately, supporting a wide range of I/O and interface standards.

Featured devices

• Arria V ST SoC—5ASTFD5K3F40I3NES (SoC)
• MAX® V CPLD—5M2210ZF256C4N (system controller)
• MAX II CPLD—EPM570GF100 (embedded USB-BlasterTM II cable)

FPGA configuration sources

• Embedded USB-Blaster II (JTAG) cable
• EPCQ flash (Active Serial x1 or x4 configuration)
• Flash fast passive parallel (FPP)
• Hard processor system (HPS)

FPGA memory

• 2x 1,024 MB 32-bit DDR3 SDRAM
• 1x 512 Megabit (Mb) CFI synchronous Flash
• 1x 256 Mb NOR Flash (EPCQ)

FPGA I/O interfaces

• 1x PCI Express x4 Gen2 socket
• 2x FPGA mezzanine card (FMC) portds
• 2x 10/100 Ethernet ports
• 2x SPF+ ports
• 4x user LEDs
• 4x user pushbuttons
• 4x user dip switches
• HPS boot sources
• 512 Mb QSPI Flash
• Removable micro-SDCard flash
• FPGA

HPS memory

• 1x 1,024 Mbyte (MB) DDR3 SDRAM with ECC
• 1x 512 Mb QSPI flash
• Micro-SDCard socket with 4 GB micro-SDCard flash device
• One 32 Kb I2C serial EEROM

HPS I/O interfaces

• 1x 1 Gigabit Etherent port (HPS)
• 1x USB 2.0 on-the-go (OTG) port (HPS)
• 2x RS-232 UART (through mini-USB port)
• x1 real-time clock (with battery backup)
• x1 two-line text LCD
• x4 user LEDs
• x4 user push buttons
• x4 DIP switches

Clocking

• Four-output programmable clock generator for FPGA reference clock inputs
• 148.5 MHz LVDS programmable voltage-controlled crystal oscillator (VCXO) 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 inputs for FPGA and HPS clocks
• LMK04828 clock jitter cleaner

Power

• Laptop DC input 14—20 V adapter

System monitoring circuit

• Power (voltage, current, wattage)

Mechanical

• Board dimensions—7.175” x 9” 

SoC Embedded Design Suite Subscription Edition

• ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) Altera Edition Toolkit
• Hardware-to-software handoff tools
• Linux run-time software for application development
• SoC hardware libraries for firmware development
• Application examples