Chapter 1: Overview for the Arria V Device Family
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SoC FPGA with HPS
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You can boot the HPS before you power up and configure the FPGA fabric. After
the system is running, the HPS reconfigures the FPGA fabric at any time under
program control or through the FPGA configuration controller.
You can power up both the HPS and the FPGA fabric together, configure the FPGA
fabric first, and then upload the boot code to the HPS from the FPGA fabric.
Hardware and Software Development
For hardware development, you can configure the HPS and connect your soft logic in
the FPGA fabric to the HPS interfaces using the Qsys system integration tool in the
Quartus II software.
For software development, the ARM-based SoC FPGA devices inherit the rich
software development ecosystem available for the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore
processor. The software development process for Altera SoC FPGAs follows the same
steps as those for other SoC devices. Altera also provides support for the Linux and
VxWorks® operating systems.
You can begin device-specific firmware and software development on the Altera
SoC FPGA Virtual Target. The Virtual Target is a PC-based fast-functional simulation
of a target development system—a model of a complete development board that runs
on a PC. The Virtual Target enables the development of device-specific production
software that can run unmodified on actual hardware.
February 2012 Altera Corporation
Arria V Device Handbook
Volume 1: Device Overview and Datasheet
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