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Altera Cyclone® V FPGAs & SoCs

Altera Cyclone® V FPGAs and SoCs are a family designed to deliver a balance of high functionality, flexibility, and power efficiency. Built on the low-power fab process, the devices feature an enhanced FPGA fabric with up to 301K logic elements, integrated high-speed transceivers, and variable-precision DSP blocks that are AI-capable. With a broad mix of features, Cyclone V supports applications requiring robust processing capabilities, flexible I/O configurations, and high-speed data transfer. The SoC variants integrate an Arm®-based hard processor system (HPS) with dedicated memory controllers and high-bandwidth interconnects, offering seamless communication between the processor and FPGA fabric. With support for PCIe 2.0, DDR3 memory, and a variety of I/O standards, Cyclone V enables high-performance yet cost-effective solutions across industrial automation, automotive, video processing, and communications sectors.

Features

  • Dual-core Arm Cortex®-A9 MPCore processor - achieve enhanced system performance and seamless integration for cost-sensitive applications with built-in ARM processors, reducing the need for external components
  • Variable-precision DSP blocks - optimizes signal processing and AI workloads with advanced DSP blocks that support variable precision arithmetic, enabling high computational efficiency with reduced logic usage
  • High functionality and value - leverage a balanced architecture with higher bandwidth and resource efficiency using Altera’s Adaptive Logic Module (ALM) architecture, ideal for performance-driven applications requiring cost-effective solutions
  • M10K memory blocks
  • Abundant and versatile I/Os - a broad mix of I/Os supports multiple voltage levels and interfaces, simplifying integration across diverse application requirements, from embedded systems to high-speed connectivity
  • Hardened IPs for enhanced performance - benefit from pre-optimized, hardened IP blocks, including transceivers, DDR3 memory controllers, and PCIe, reducing power consumption, design complexity, and overall system cost
  • Clock networks and PLLs
  • Configuration, design security, and remote system upgrades
  • Single event upset (SEU) mitigation

Applications

  • Industrial
  • Wireless
  • Wireline
  • Broadcast
  • Consumer
  • Automotive

Cyclone V SoC FPGA Architecture

Performance Graph - Altera Cyclone® V FPGAs & SoCs

Cyclone V SoC FPGA devices offer a powerful dual-core Arm Cortex-A9 MPCore processor surrounded by rich peripherals and a hardened memory controller. The FPGA fabric, with up to 110K LEs (logic elements), is connected to the hard processor system (HPS) through a high-speed >100Gbps interconnect backbone.

Altera Quartus® Prime Software

Altera Cyclone® V FPGAs & SoCs

The Altera Quartus Prime Software Suite provides everything needed to design with Altera SoC FPGA. It is a complete development package with a user-friendly GUI and technology to help turn ideas into reality. The Altera Quartus Prime software includes productivity tools to make it easy to build designs, such as:

  • Altera FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Technology
  • Platform Designer (formerly Qsys)
  • System Console debugging toolkit
  • Transceiver Toolkit
  • Timing Analyzer
  • Power Analyzer

Additional Resources

Development Tools

Altera Cyclone® Development Tools

Used to evaluate Cyclone® series of FPGAs.

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Altera Quartus® Prime Design Software

Multi-platform design environment for all phases of FPGA and CPLD design.

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Published: 2023-10-27 | Updated: 2026-01-07