Intel® Arria® 10 SoC Development Kit

The Intel® Arria® 10 SoC Development Kit offers a quick and simple approach for developing custom Arm* Development Studio for Intel® SoC FPGA processor-based SoC designs. Design productivity is one of the driving philosophies of Intel Arria 10 SoC architecture. Intel Arria 10 SoCs offer full software compatibility with previous generation SoCs, a broad ecosystem of Arm* DS for Intel® SoC FPGA software and tools, and the enhanced FPGA and digital signal processing (DSP) hardware design flow.

Figure 1. Intel Arria 10 SoC Development Kit
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Figure 2. Arria 10 SoC Development Kit Block Diagram
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Intel Arria 10 SoCs have been designed to meet the performance and power requirements for mid-range applications such as:

  • Wireless infrastructure equipment including remote radio unit and mobile backhaul**
  • Compute and storage equipment including flash cache, cloud computing, and acceleration**
  • Broadcast studio and distribution equipment including professional A/V and video conferencing**
  • Military guidance, control, and intelligence equipment**
  • Wireline 100G line cards, bridges and aggregation, 40G GPON**
  • Test and measurement equipment**
  • Diagnostic medical imaging equipment**
  • PCI Express* (PCIe*) Gen3 x8 lanes (endpoint or root port)**

**Application-specific daughtercards, available separately, supporting a wide range of I/O and interface standards

 

With this kit, you can:

  • Evaluate Intel Arria 10 SoC device features and performance
  • Begin development of your hardware and software design
  • Use as a platform for target reference designs, OS/BSP, and tools

1. Ordering Information

Ordering Code Price Ordering Information
DK-SOC-10AS066S-A

$3,495

 This development kit features a 10AS066N3F40E2SG device and a one-year license for the Intel Quartus® Prime Design Software.

Table 2. Contents Included in the Development Kit

Hardware Software2
  • Intel Arria 10 10AS066N3F40E2SG1 SoC
  • Embedded Intel FPGA Download Cable II for hard processor system (HPS) or FPGA programming
  • PCI Express (PCIe) Gen3 x8, Dual FPGA mezzanine card (FMC) expansion headers
  • Two 10/100/1000 SGMII Ethernet ports and one 10/100/1000 RGMII Ethernet port and two 10GbE small form factor pluggable (SFP) cages
  • 1 FMC loopback card
  • USB On-The-Go (USB OTG) port
  • 1GB DDR4 HPS HILO memory card
  • NAND, quad serial peripheral interface (SPI), and SD/MICRO boot flash cards
  • 2GB DDR4 HILO memory card
  • Display port and serial digital interface (SDI) port
  • Golden System Reference Design
  • Board Update Portal design
  • Board Test System (BTS) design
  • Intel Arria 10 SoC Development Kit User Guide
  • Intel Arria 10 SoC Development Kit Quick Start Guide
  • Intel Arria 10 SoC Development Board Reference Manual
  • Development Kit design files (BOM, schematics, layout)
  • Design software3
  • Intel Quartus Prime Pro Edition Software (required)
  • Intel SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite (EDS)4
  • Nios® II processor (optional)
  • MegaCore® intellectual property (IP) library (optional)
  • Mentor Graphics* ModelSim*-Intel® FPGA Edition Software (optional)

1. DK-SOC-10AS066S-A development kit comes with a 10AS066N3F40E2SG device

2. Download the zip file, and install the Intel Arria 10 SoC Board Test System.

3. A one-year license for Intel Quartus Prime Design Software is available upon purchase of the kit. License activation instructions and FAQs.

4. Arm* DS for Intel® SoC FPGA is sold seperately, replacing ARM Development Studio 5 (ARM DS5) - check Download Center for details

Table 3. Development Kit Documentation

Document Description

Intel Arria 10 SX SoC Package Installer (ES2 Edition)

 

Intel Arria 10 SX SoC Package Installer (Production Edition)

A single zip file containing

  • Intel Arria 10 SoC Development Kit board design files, documents, and examples including the BTS installation files.

User Guide (ES2 Edition)

 

User Guide (Production Edition)

 Documentation about setting up the Arria 10 SoC  Development Kit and using the included software: Arria 10 SoC Development Kit User Guide 

Quick Start Guide (ES2 Edition)

 

Quick Start Guide (Production Edition)

 Documentation summarizing the usage of the development kit and its features
Board Schematic Production Kit schematic, Rev C
Board Bring Up Guide Details on how to bring up the Intel Arria 10 SoC Development Kit
Intel Arria 10 GSRD (Golden System Reference Design)1 Intel Arria 10 GSRD (Golden System Reference Design) page on Rocketboards.org for instructions to create an SD card image. 
SoC EDS Installer SoC EDS installer2
Qsys and Quartus Tools Intel Quartus Prime Design Software Suite provides the necessary tools used for developing hardware and software for Intel FPGA devices. Included in Intel Quartus Prime Software suite are Intel Quartus Prime Software, the Nios II EDS, and the Intel FPGA IP Library. 

1 Please refer to the GSRD compatibility matrix to pick the correct GSRD version for your board. 

2 License for Arm* DS for Intel® SoC FPGA is sold seperately - check the Download Center for details