System-on-chip FPGA anchors design platform

1st August 2017

Mick Elliott

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The DE10-Nano development kit from Terasic Technologies, a platinum member of the Intel FPGA Design Solutions Network, is now being shipped by Mouser Electronics. The DE10-Nano kit is a robust hardware design platform built around an Intel System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGA, which combines a processor, peripherals, and an FPGA fabric into a single, user-customisable device.

The development kit is based on the 28nm Intel Cyclone V SoC FPGA, which integrates dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 embedded cores with what is claimed to be industry-leading programmable logic for maximum design flexibility.

Developers can leverage the power of reconfigurability along with a high-performance, low-power processor system.

The Cyclone V SoC combines 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 DE10-Nano kit includes two 40pin general-purpose input/output (GPIO) headers, 1GByte of high-speed DDR3 memory, a 12-bit analogue-to-digital converter (ADC), Gigabit Ethernet networking, and an HDMI transmitter.

The kit contains all the components required to use the board with a computer running Microsoft Windows XP or later.