Detailed Intel Arria 10 SOC FPGA development module

Overview

Intel’s Arria 10 SoC FPGA adopts TSMC 20nm process technology and integrates dual-core ARM Cortex-A9MPCore hardware processor system (HPS) and industry-leading programmable logic technologies such as hardware floating-point digital signal processor (DSP) blocks. Rich feature embedded peripherals, hardened floating-point variable precision DSP block, embedded high-speed transceiver, hard memory controller and protocol IP controller, CPU operating frequency up to 1.5GHz.

Feature

• Processor performance increased by 65%, and CPU computing/core up to 1.5 GHz

• Compared with the previous generation, the performance is improved by 60%, with the FPGA logic core performance exceeding 500 MHz (compared to the previous SoC performance by 15%)

• The transceiver bandwidth is 4 times larger than the previous generation (bandwidth is 2 times higher than the previous high-end FPGA)

• System performance increased by 4 times (2,400 Mbps DDR4 SDRAM, mixed memory cube support)

• More than 1,500 Giga floating-point operations per second (GFLOPs), while a single device is up to 50 GFLOPs/watt

• With the help of process technology improvement and innovative methods to reduce power consumption, the power consumption is reduced by 40%

• Intel Arria 10 SoC FPGA supports the use of 32-bit DDR4 SDRAM memory to improve system performance.

• UMI UD408G5S1AF 256Mx32 8Gb DDR4 SDRAM has a density of 8Gb, 32M words × 32 bits × 8 groups, and the data rate is 3200Mbps/2933Mbps/2666Mbps/2400Mbps/2133Mbps/1866Mbps/1600Mbps.

• The commercial operating temperature range is: TC=0℃ to +95℃

• The industrial working temperature range is: TC=-40℃ to +95℃

• SDRAM memory supports sampling and testing.

Application field

• Wireless infrastructure

• Computing and storage devices

• Broadcasting equipment

• Military equipment and smart equipment

• Wired 100G line card

• 40G GPON

• Test and measurement equipment

• The medical image diagnosis equipment

Design efficiency is one of the driving forces for the development of Intel Arria 10 SoC architecture. Intel Arria 10 SoC is fully compatible with previous-generation SoC software, and also provides a huge ecosystem of many ARM software and tools, as well as an enhanced FPGA and DSP hardware design flow.

The improved Arria 10 HPS now has three Ethernet MAC cores, 256 KB Scratch-RAM, supports 8-bit and 16-bit NAND flash memory devices, eMMC SD/SDIO/MMC cards, and 72-bit DDR3/4 memory.