Hard Processor System Technical Reference Manual: Agilex™ 5 SoCs

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Date 7/19/2024
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2.1. HPS Differences Among Intel SoC Device Families

Table 33.  HPS Differences
Feature

Cyclone® V SoC,

Arria® V SoC

Arria® 10 SoC

Stratix® 10 SoC,

Intel® Agilex™ 7

F-Series/I-Series/

M-Series SoC

Agilex™ 5

E-Series/D-Series SoC

Micro Processor Unit (MPU) Single/Dual Cortex* -A9 Dual Cortex* -A9 Quad Cortex* -A53 Dual Cortex* -A76 and dual Cortex* -A55 with DSU 1
Cache Coherency Controller Accelerator coherency port (ACP) ACP Cache Coherency Unit (CCU) CCU1
Generic Interrupt Controller (GIC) Yes Yes Yes Yes1
System Memory Management Unit (SMMU) No No Yes Yes1
On-Chip RAM (OCRAM) 64 KB 256 KB 256 KB 512 KB1
Ethernet Media Access Controller (EMAC) 2 3 3 31
DMA Controller 1 1 1 21
NAND Flash Controller Yes Yes Yes Yes1
SD/eMMC Host Controller Yes Yes Yes Yes1
Combo DLL PHY No No No Yes1
Quad SPI Flash Controller Yes (inside HPS) Yes (inside HPS) No (outside of HPS, uses SDM) No (outside of HPS, uses SDM)
USB 3.1 Gen 1 Controller No No No 11
USB 2.0 OTG Controller 2 2 2 1
I3C Controller No No No 21
I2C Controller 4 5 5 5
SPI Controller 2 masters and 2 slaves 2 masters and 2 slaves 2 masters and 2 slaves 2 masters and 2 slaves
Timers 4 4 4 4
Watchdog Timers 2 2 4 5
UART Controller 2 2 2 2
Controller Area Network (CAN) Controller 2 No No No
General-Purpose I/O Interface (GPIO) Yes Yes Yes Yes
Hard Processor System I/O Pin Multiplexing

Dedicated I/O with Loaner capability for Cyclone V SoC: 67

Dedicated I/O with Loaner capability for Arria V SoC: 94

Dedicated I/O: 17

Shared I/O: 48

Dedicated I/O: 48

Shared I/O: 0

Dedicated I/O: 48

Shared I/O: 0

System Manager Yes Yes Yes Yes1
Clock Manager Yes Yes Yes Yes1
Reset Manager Yes Yes Yes Yes1
FPGA Manager Yes Yes No (uses SDM) No (uses SDM)
Scan Manager Yes No No No
Security Manager No Yes No (uses SDM) No (uses SDM)
HPS-FPGA Bridges Yes Yes Yes Yes1
SDRAM Controller Inside HPS Outside of HPS Outside of HPS Outside of HPS1
System Interconnect Yes Yes Yes Yes1
Error Checking and Correction (ECC) Controller No Yes Yes Yes1
CoreSight Debug and Trace Yes Yes Yes Yes1
Secure Device Manager (SDM) Interface No No Yes Yes
Booting and Configuration

3 options:

HPS Boot and FPGA Configuration occur separately, FPGA Configuration First, HPS Boot First

3 options:

HPS Boot and FPGA Configuration occur separately, FPGA Configuration First, HPS Boot First

2 options:

FPGA Configuration First, HPS Boot First

2 options:

FPGA Configuration First, HPS Boot First

Refer to the respective chapters for detailed information of the differences across different families.
1 This is a new or upgraded IP in Agilex™ 5 SoC as compared to Intel® Agilex™ 7 SoC.