Overview; General Description - Arrow BeMicro CV A9 Hardware Reference Manual

1. Overview

This document describes the hardware features of the BeMicro CV A9 Cyclone V E FPGA
Development Board, including component references and detailed pin-out information.

General Description

The Arrow Electronics BeMicro CV A9 is an enhanced BeMicro CV development board that
utilizes Altera's 28-nm low-cost Cyclone V FPGA. It retains all the main features of the original
BeMicro CV predecessor while providing a higher logic density and additional features. The
5CEFA9F23C8N on the BeMicro CV A9 includes a hardened memory controller (HMC) connected
to a single 16-bit wide, 1Gb DDR3 SDRAM device. FPGA user I/O are routed to the two 40-pin
I/O headers and 80-pin MEC-style edge connector. The BeMicro CV A9 also includes an on
board USB Blaster programmer, Micro-SD card slot, and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet PHY.
The BeMicro CV A9 is well suited for DSP and logic-intensive applications such as Software
Defined Radio (SDR), data acquisition, and video processing. BeMicro CV A9 is compatible
with the Arrow BeScope digital oscilloscope, SDRstick
MTL LCD module. For a complete list of products compatible with BeMicro CV A9 board, see
the BeMicro CV A9 Partner Pack at http://www.arrow.com/bemicro.
Users can easily migrate existing designs from BeMicro SDK or BeMicro CV to BeMicro CV A9.
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FPGA
External Memory
Memory Controller
Expansion I/O
Ethernet
USB Blaster
Micro-SD card slot
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provides a brief feature comparison of the Cyclone-based BeMicro development
Table 1-1: BeMicro Feature Comparison
BeMicro SDK
EP4CE22F17C7
Mobile DDR
Soft (Microtronix)
80 pin edge connector 2 x 40 pin I/O +
Yes
Integrated
Yes
TM
SDR front-end boards, and the Terasic
BeMicro CV
5CEFA2F23C8N
DDR3
Hard
80 pin edge connector
No
Integrated
Yes
3
BeMicro CV A9
5CEFA9F23C8N
DDR3
Hard
2 x 40 pin I/O +
80 pin edge connector
Yes
Integrated
Yes