Terasic Altera

Starter Platform with OpenVINO™ Toolkit

Terasic's perfect starting point as OpenCL high-performance computing (HPC) development platform

Image of Terasic's OpenVINO Starter Kit Terasic's OpenVINO starter kit is a PCIe®-based FPGA card with high performance and competitive cost. It is equipped with the largest Cyclone V GX device at 301 K LE, and it supports PCIe Gen1x4. The board comes with 1 GB DDR3, 64 MB SDRAM, UART-to-USB interface, and extension headers such as GPIO and Arduino. This makes the OpenVINO starter kit a reconfigurable platform with adequate computing performance and low power consumption.

The package of OpenVINO starter kit includes reference designs for all the peripherals onboard. It also has a detailed user manual for developers to follow and start building up a system according to their needs immediately.

The OpenVINO starter kit is a perfect starting point as OpenCL HPC development platform. It supports Intel FPGA OpenCL BSP for developers to design a system with high-level programming language. The computation demanding tasks can be off-loaded from CPU to FPGA, resulting in significant system performance improvement.

Features
  • FPGA Device
    • Cyclone V
      • 301K programmable logic elements
      • 13,917 Kbits embedded memory
      • Eight fractional PLLs
      • Two hard memory controllers
      • Nine 3.125 G transceivers
  • Configuration and Debug
    • Quad serial configuration device-EPCQ256
    • On-board USB Blaster II (Mini-B USB connector)
  • Memory Device
    • 64 MB (32 M x 16) SDRAM
    • 1 GB (2 x 256 M x 16) DDR3 SDRAM
  • Switches, Buttons, LED, and 7-Segments
    • 5 user buttons (4 normal buttons, one CPU_RESET_n)
    • 4 user switches
    • 4 LEDs
    • Two 7-segment displays
  • Communication
    • UART-to-USB (Mini-B USB connector)
    • PCIe Gen1x4
  • Expansion I/O
    • One Arduino Uno Revision 3 expansion header
      • Analog ADC
        • Serial peripheral interface
        • 500 Ksps sampling rate
        • Eight channels
        • 12-bit resolution
        • Analog input range: 0 V to 4.096 V
        • Resolution: 12-bit
      • Digital I/O
        • Diode protection circuit
    • 2x 40 GPIO header
      • 36 general GPIO pins
      • Support 8 pairs of LVDS TX and 8 pairs of LVDS RX
      • Diode protection circuit
      • Configurable I/O standards: 1.5 V/1.8 V/2.5 V/3.3 V
    • SMA IN/OUT 3.3 V single port
Applications
  • Computers
  • Consumer
  • Industrial
  • Medical
  • Military
  • Test and measurement

Cyclone V GX

ImageManufacturer Part NumberDescriptionNumber of Logic Elements/CellsTotal RAM BitsAvailable QuantityPriceView Details
IC FPGA 208 I/O 484FBGA5CGXFC3B7F23C8NIC FPGA 208 I/O 484FBGA31500138137697 - Immediate$939.44View Details
IC FPGA 144 I/O 324UBGA5CGXFC3B7U15C8NIC FPGA 144 I/O 324UBGA315001381376198 - Immediate$977.80View Details
IC FPGA 240 I/O 484FBGA5CGXFC5C6F23C7NIC FPGA 240 I/O 484FBGA77000500121635 - Immediate$1,787.58View Details
IC FPGA 336 I/O 672FBGA5CGXFC5C6F27C7NIC FPGA 336 I/O 672FBGA77000500121640 - Immediate$1,989.67View Details
IC FPGA 240 I/O 484FBGA5CGXFC7C6F23I7NIC FPGA 240 I/O 484FBGA149500788070441 - Immediate$3,451.68View Details
Published: 2019-06-06

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