Introduction To The Hard Processor System - Altera cyclone V Technical Reference

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The Cyclone V system-on-a-chip (SoC) is composed of two distinct portions- a single- or dual-core
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ARM Cortex
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of peripherals that reduce board size and increase performance within a system.
The SoC features the FPGA I/O, which is I/O pins dedicated to the FPGA fabric.
Figure 1-1: Altera SoC Device Block Diagram
The HPS consists of the following types of modules:
• Microprocessor unit (MPU) subsystem with single or dual ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore
• Flash memory controllers
• SDRAM controller subsystem
• System interconnect
• On-chip memories
• Support peripherals
• Interface peripherals
• Debug components
• Phase-locked loops (PLLs)
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Introduction to the Hard Processor System

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-A9 hard processor system (HPS) and an FPGA. The HPS architecture integrates a wide set
Altera SoC Device
HPS Portion
Flash SDRAM Controller
Subsystem
Controllers
Cortex-A9 MPU Subsystem
On-Chip Support
Memories Peripherals
Interface
PLLs Debug
Peripherals
FPGA Portion
Control User
Block I/O
HPS-FPGA
FPGA Fabric
Interfaces
(LUTs, RAMs, Multipliers & Routing)
Hard
PLLs
PCIe
HSSI
Transceivers
Hard Memory
Controllers
processors
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