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Cyclone V SoC Development Kit Available for Order

Available for order now, the Cyclone® V SoC Development Kit is a development platform that enables hardware and software developers to accelerate their embedded systems design development. Developed in collaboration with ARM, this kit features the ARM^® Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) Altera^® Edition Toolkit software.

First FPGA-Adaptive DS-5 Toolkit Removes Debugging Barrier in SoC Devices

Altera and ARM have jointly developed the first FPGA-adaptive, unified debugger for Altera’s family of SoC devices. The ARM Development Suite (DS-5) Toolkit Altera Edition removes the debugging barrier between a CPU subsystem and an on-chip FPGA, giving you an unprecedented level of visibility and control through a common, familiar software debugging interface. Watch video.

Cyclone V SoCs Now Shipping

Explore how Cyclone V SoCs bring high performance, low system cost, and low power to your next design. Altera is the only FPGA vendor today shipping SoCs that offer 32-bit error correction code (ECC) support which helps ensure data integrity throughout the embedded system. ECC functionality is built into the SoC’s external DRAM memory interface and an extensive number on-chip memory instances and peripheral interfaces. Other unique features in the device family include a high-bandwidth memory controller with built-in memory protection, flexible boot capability, and integrated PCI Express^® (PCIe^®) across all SoC devices.

Arria V and Cyclone V SoC Development with ACDS v13.0

Begin your system and intellectual property (IP) development by downloading Quartus^® II software v13.0, which includes:

Cyclone V SoC	Arria V SoC
Full compilation support (110K LE and 85K LE device) Final pinout for 100K LE and 85 K LE devices Updated hard processor system (HPS) Megawizard Cyclone V SoC Handbook	Initial compilation support for AV SoC (460K LE and 350K LE devices) Arria V SoC Handbook

Altera SoC Virtual Target 2.0 Available Now

Software developers worldwide are now using the Altera SoC Virtual Target to develop code for the dual-core ARM^® Cortex^TM-A9 based SoC. A new release of the Altera SoC Virtual Target, version 2.0 is now available. The Virtual Target 2.0 provides an updated model to the original with additions and enhancements. What's more, Altera is offering the Virtual Target 2.0 with a special discounted price. Shorten your SoC design cycle and get started with the Virtual Target today by contacting your local sales representative.

Nios II Design Example for Cyclone V GX FPGA Development Kit Now Available

The Cyclone V GX FPGA Development Kit is now shipping and includes a pre-packaged Nios II processor design example. This design example entitled "Board Update Portal", comprising a Nios II processor system with Ethernet MAC, runs a HTML server software application and is a great way to get started with your Nios II system development.

Purchase a Cyclone V GX FPGA development kit today
Nios II processor "Board Update Portal" example designs are also available for Arria V GX FPGA Development Kit, Arria V GX FPGA Starter Kit, and Stratix V GX FPGA Development Kit

Impulse C Software-To-Hardware Compiler for Nios II Processsor

Impulse Accelerated Technologies, a leader in software-to-hardware technologies is offering the Impulse Codeveloper^TM, which includes the Impulse C^TM software-to-hardware compiler for C based IP and software acceleration for the Nios II Processor. Using available Nios II Platform Support Packages you can develop Avalon^® Memory-Mapped (Avalon-MM) hardware IP components and simply add them to your Qsys project. Impulse Accelerated Technologies is also offering special pricing for Altera customers.

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