FPGA platform DE5a-Net-DDR4 Terasic Arria 10 GX FPGA

DE5a-Net-DDR4 Development and Education Board

With the rapidly-rising demand in today’s data and compute-intensive applications, Terasic’s DE5a-Net-DDR4 is purpose-built to accelerate artificial intelligence, high frequency trading and high performance computing workloads to provide the industry-leading platform for a spectrum of industries that rely on HPC to maintain their competitive edge.

The DE5a-Net-DDR4 takes advantage of the powerful Intel Arria 10 FPGA to enable higher speed data processing. The board is armed with 16GB DDR4 memory module, running at over 75 Gbps, up to 7.876 GB/s data transfer via PCIe Gen 3 x8 edge between FPGA and host PC, and 4 on-board QSFP+ connectors. The on-board QDRII memory and DDR4 module can obtain lower application latency and higher application throughput, making it an excellent platform to achieve breakthrough performance in data filtering and algorithmic acceleration.

In addition to these offerings, the DE5a-Net-DDR4 fully supports Intel Open VINO™ toolkit to provide optimal Computer Vision and Deep Learning solutions. Our clients' systems can achieve highest computing performance and lowest cost for their AI applications by leveraging the Arria® 10 FPGA on DE5a-Net-DDR4.

FPGA

• Intel® Arria 10 GX FPGA (10AX115N2F45E1SG)

FPGA Configuration

• On-Board USB Blaster II or JTAG header for FPGA programming
• Fast passive parallel (FPPx32) configuration via MAX II CPLD and flash memory

Memory

• 256MB FLASH
• 2 Independent DDR4 SODIMM Sockets, up to 16GB 1066MHz or 8GB 1200MHz for each socket
• 4 Independent 550 MHz QDRII+SRAMs, 18-bits data bus and 72Mbit for each

Communication and Expansion

• Four QSFP+ connectors
• PCI Express (PCIe) x8 edge connector (includes Windows PCIe drivers)
• One RS422 expansion header

Others

• General user input / output:
  • 4 LEDs
  • 1 Bracket LED Array
  • 2 7-segments
  • 4 push-buttons
  • 2 slide switches
  • SMA clock input / output
• On-Board Clock
  • 50MHz Oscillator
  • Programmable Clock Generator
• System Monitor and Control
  • Temperature sensor
  • Power Monitor
  • Fan control
• Power
  • PCI Express 6-pin power connector, 12V DC Input
  • PCI Express edge connector power
• Mechanical Specification
  • PCI Express standard height and 3/4-length