element14 Lark Board SoC FPGA development kit

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element14 has announced the Lark Board, a high-performance development board based on Altera’s Cyclone V SoC. The board is designed for development of high-volume applications including automotive, medical equipment, video surveillance and industrial control.

The board features a 5CSXFC6D6 SoC FPGA, which integrates an FPGA and ARM-based dual-core hard processor system (HPS) that operates at speeds up to 800 MHz and is coupled together through an AXI high-speed interconnect backbone to the FPGA fabric. A single monolithic device combines the performance and power savings of hard intellectual property with the flexibility of programmable logic.

The board provides 1 GB DDR3 SDRAM to each of the HPS and FPGA as well as 4 GB eMMC Flash and a Transflash card slot for mass storage. The board features I/O interfaces including PCI Express, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0 Host ports, UART, JTAG and 3G SDI. It supports VGA display up to 1920 x 1080 and 1080 HDMI digital output, making it suitable for video-intensive applications. It also features a 30-pin digital camera connector for surveillance applications.

The board also integrates a 12-bit high-speed and a dual-channel 3.3 GHz RF/IF differential amplifier alongside a 12-bit 105 MSPS high-accuracy ADC to enable analog signal amplification, filtering and sampling. The board uses an Altera Enpirion power solution to provide stable and efficient output for all the Cyclone V SoC’s power rails.