Chapter 2: Board Components
2–5
Featured Device: Cyclone V GX FPGA
May 2013
Altera Corporation
Cyclone V GX FPGA Development Board
Reference Manual
Featured Device: Cyclone V GX FPGA
The Cyclone V GX FPGA development board features a Cyclone V GX
5CGXFC7D6F31C7NES device (U11) in a 896-pin FBGA package.
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For more information about Cyclone V device family, refer to the
Cyclone V Device
Handbook
.
Table 2–2
describes the features of the Cyclone V GX 5CGXFC7D6F31C7NES device.
I/O Resources
The Cyclone V GX 5CGXFC7D6F31C7NES device has total of 480 user I/Os and nine
transceiver channels.
Table 2–3
lists the Cyclone V GX device I/O pin count and usage
by function on the board.
Table 2–2. Cyclone V GX FPGA Features
ALMs
Equivalent
LEs
M10K RAM
Blocks
Total RAM
(Kbits)
18-bit × 18-bit
Multipliers
PLLs
Transceivers
Package Type
136,880
150,000
1,726
7,024
312
7
9
896-pin FBGA
Table 2–3. Cyclone V GX Device I/O Pin Count
Function
I/O Standard
I/O Count
Special Pins
DDR3A
1.5-V SSTL
81
One differential x4 DQS pin
DDR3B
1.5-V SSTL
81
One differential x4 DQS pin
Flash, SSRAM, and MAX V FSM bus
2.5-V CMOS
80
—
PCI Express x4 port
2.5-V CMOS + XCVR
13
One reference clock
HSMA port
2.5-V CMOS + LVDS + XCVR
93
Four transceivers, 17 LVDS, I
2
C
Gigabit Ethernet port
2.5-V CMOS + LVDS
6
—
Embedded USB-Blaster II
2.5-V CMOS
19
—
SDI video port
2.5-V CMOS + XCVR
6
One reference clock
Push buttons
2.5-V CMOS
4
One
DEV_CLRn
pin
DIP switches
2.5-V CMOS
4
—
Character LCD
2.5-V CMOS
11
—
LEDs
2.5-V CMOS
7
—
Clock or Oscillators
2.5-V CMOS + LVDS + PCML
18
Nine reference clock
Total I/O Used:
423