DE5-Net User Manual
June 20, 2018
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Chapter 1
Overview
This chapter provides an overview of the DE5-Net Development Board and installation guide.
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The Terasic DE5-Net Stratix V GX FPGA Development Kit provides the ideal hardware solution
for designs that demand high capacity and bandwidth memory interfacing, ultra-low latency
communication, and power efficiency. With a full-height, 3/4-length form-factor package, the
DE5-Net is designed for the most demanding high-end applications, empowered with the
top-of-the-line Altera Stratix V GX, delivering the best system-level integration and flexibility in
the industry.
The Stratix® V GX FPGA features integrated transceivers that transfer at a maximum of 12.5 Gbps,
allowing the DE5-Net to be fully compliant with version 3.0 of the PCI Express standard, as well as
allowing an ultra low-latency, straight connections to four external 10G SFP+ modules. Not relying
on an external PHY will accelerate mainstream development of network applications enabling
customers to deploy designs for a broad range of high-speed connectivity applications. For designs
that demand high capacity and high speed for memory and storage, the DE5-Net delivers with two
independent banks of DDR3 SO-DIMM RAM, four independent banks of QDRII+ SRAM,
high-speed parallel flash memory, and four SATA ports. The feature-set of the DE5-Net fully
supports all high-intensity applications such as low-latency trading, cloud computing,
high-performance computing, data acquisition, network processing, and signal processing.