Description

The DE1-SoC Development Kit presents a robust hardware design platform built around the Altera System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGA, which combines the latest dual-core Cortex-A9 embedded cores with industry-leading programmable logic for ultimate design flexibility. Users can now leverage the power of tremendous re-configurability paired with a high-performance, low-power processor system. Altera’s SoC integrates an ARM-based hard processor system (HPS) consisting of processor, peripherals and memory interfaces tied seamlessly with the FPGA fabric using a high-bandwidth interconnect backbone. The DE1-SoC development board includes hardware such as high-speed DDR3 memory, video and audio capabilities, Ethernet networking, and much more.
The DE1-SOC Development Kit contains all components needed to use the board in conjunction with a computer that runs the Microsoft Windows XP or later ( 64-bit OS and Quartus II 64-bit are required to compile projects for DE1-SoC  ). 

FPGA Device

• Cyclone V SoC 5CSEMA5F31C6 Device
• Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 (HPS)
• 85K Programmable Logic Elements
• 4,450 Kbits embedded memory
• 6 Fractional PLLs
• 2 Hard Memory Controllers

Configuration and Debug

• Serial Configuration device – EPCS128 on FPGA
• On-Board USB Blaster II (Normal type B USB connector)

Memory Device

• 64MB (32Mx16) SDRAM on FPGA
• 1GB (2x256Mx16) DDR3 SDRAM on HPS
• Micro SD Card Socket on HPS

Communication

• Two USB 2.0 Host Ports (ULPI interface with USB type A connector) on HPS
• UART to USB (USB Mini B connector)
• 10/100/1000 Ethernet
• PS/2 mouse/keyboard
• IR Emitter/Receiver

Connectors

• Two 40-pin Expansion Headers (voltage levels: 3.3V)
• One 10-pin ADC Input Header
• One LTC connector (One Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Master ,one I2C and one GPIO interface )

Display

• 24-bit VGA DAC

Audio

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

Video Input

• TV Decoder (NTSC/PAL/SECAM) and TV-in connector

ADC

• sample rate: 500 KSPS
• Channel number: 8
• Resolution: 12 bits
• Analog input range : 0 ~ 4.096 V

Switches, Buttons and Indicators

• 4 User Keys (FPGA x4)
• 10 User switches (FPGA x10)
• 11 User LEDs (FPGA x10 ; HPS x 1)
• 2 HPS Reset Buttons (HPS_RST_n and HPS_WARM_RST_n)
• Six 7-segment displays

Sensors

• G-Sensor on HPS

Power

• 12V DC input

Block Diagram of the DE1-SOC Board