Altera's Cyclone® V FPGAs provide the industry's lowest system cost and power, along with performance levels that make the device family ideal for differentiating your high-volume applications. You'll get up to 40 percent lower total power compared with the previous generation, efficient logic integration capabilities, integrated transceiver variants, and SoC FPGA variants with an ARM-based hard processor system (HPS).
The family comes in six targeted variants:
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SoC FPGAs – Your Customizable ARM Processor-Based SoC
SoC FPGAs let you reduce system power, system cost, and board space by integrating a HPS – consisting of processors, peripherals, and memory controller – with the FPGA fabric using a high-bandwidth interconnect backbone. The combination of the HPS with Altera's 28-nm low-power FPGA fabric provide the performance and ecosystem of an applications-class ARM® processor with the flexibility, low cost, and low power consumption of the Cyclone V FPGAs.
Industry-Leading Low Power and Low System Cost
The devices are built on TSMC's 28-nm Low-Power (28LP) process, which brings down the power and cost required by cost-sensitive applications.
- Up to 40 percent lower total power compared with Cyclone IV GX FPGAs
- Lowest power serial transceivers with 88-mW maximum power consumption per channel at 5 Gbps
- Over 4,000 MIPS (Dhrystones 2.1 benchmark) processing performance for under 1.8 W (for SoC FPGA)
- Lower power due to increased use of hard intellectual property (IP) blocks
Also lowering cost – the FPGAs require only two power regulator voltages and come in wire-bond packages with small form factor options.
Abundant Hard IP Blocks
Because Cyclone V FPGAs integrate an abundance of hard IP blocks, you can differentiate and do more with less overall system cost, power, and design time. Key hard IP blocks include the following:
- Hardened memory controllers supporting Mobile DDR, LPDDR2 SDRAM, and 400-MHz DDR3 SDRAM with optional error correction code (ECC) support
- PCI Express® Gen2 with multifunction support
- Variable-precision digital signal processing (DSP) blocks
- HPS (for SoC FPGA):
- Dual-core ARM CortexTM-A9 MPCoreTM processor
- Embedded peripherals (Ethernet, USB, flash memory, and more)
- High bandwidth (>100 Gbps) HPS-FPGA interconnect
To protect your valuable IP investments, Cyclone V FPGAs also provide comprehensive design protection, with features including 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard with volatile and non-volatile keys.
Tailored for High-Volume, Cost-Sensitive Applications
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. Learn more about the advantages of Cyclone V FPGAs in a variety of market segments.
Complete Design Resources
To assure a smooth, successful design flow so you can turn your ideas into revenue quicker than ever before, Altera provides a complete design environment including:
- Quartus® II development software
- Library of proven IP
- Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor
- Nios® II processor, the world's most versatile embedded processor
Related Links
- Cyclone V FPGA family overview
- Cyclone V SoC FPGA HPS
- SoC FPGA Product Overview Advance Information Brief (PDF)
- SoC FPGA overview brochure (PDF)
- 28-nm device portfolio
- Enabling High-Performance DSP with Arria V or Cyclone V Variable-Precision DSP Block webcast
- Enabling High-Performance DSP Applications with Arria V or Cyclone V Variable-Precision DSP Blocks (PDF) white paper
