HPS modules. The FPGA I/O pins are configured by an FPGA configuration image through the HPS or any
external source supported by the device.
The MPU subsystem can boot from flash devices connected to the HPS pins. Or, when the FPGA portion
is configured by an external source, the MPU subsystem can boot from memory available to the FPGA
portion of the device.
The HPS and FPGA portions of the device have separate external power supplies and independently power
on. You can power on the HPS without powering on the FPGA portion of the device. But to power on the
FPGA portion, the HPS must already be on or powered on at the same time as the FPGA portion. You can
also turn off the FPGA portion of the device while leaving the HPS power on.
Related Information
•
For information about the FPGA portion of the device, refer to
Cyclone V Device Handbook.
•
For more information, refer to the
Booting and Configuration
appendix in volume 3 of the
Cyclone V
Device Handbook.
Features of the HPS
The following list contains the main modules of the HPS:
• MPU subsystem featuring dual ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processors
• General-purpose Direct Memory Access (DMA) controller
• Two Ethernet media access controllers (EMACs)
• Two USB 2.0 On-The-Go (OTG) controllers
• NAND flash controller
• Quad SPI flash controller
• Secure Digital (SD) / MultiMediaCard (MMC) controller
• Two serial peripheral interface (SPI) master controllers
• Two SPI slave controllers
• Four inter-integrated circuit (I
2
C) controllers
• 64 KB on-chip RAM
• 64 KB on-chip boot ROM
• Two UARTs
• Four timers
• Two watchdog timers
• Three general-purpose I/O (GPIO) interfaces
• Two controller area network (CAN) controllers (certain device variants only)
• ARM CoreSight
™
debug components
• Debug Access Port (DAP)
• Trace Port Interface Unit (TPIU)
• System Trace Macrocell (STM)
• Program Trace Macrocell (PTM)
• Embedded Trace Router (ETR)
• Embedded Cross Trigger (ECT)
• System Manager
Introduction to Cyclone V Hard Processor System (HPS)
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