Differences Among Intel SoC Device Families

ID 683648
Date 8/22/2018
Public

HPS-FPGA Bridge Differences

HPS-FPGA Bridge Feature Cyclone V SoC Arria V SoC Arria 10 SoC Stratix 10 SoC
HPS-to-FPGA 32-, 64-, or 128-bit 32-, 64-, or 128-bit 32-, 64-, or 128-bit 32-, 64-, or 128-bit
Lightweight HPS-to-FPGA 32-bit 32-bit 32-bit 32-bit
FPGA-to-HPS 32-, 64-, or 128-bit 32-, 64-, or 128-bit 32-, 64-, or 128-bit 128-bit
Protocol Support AMBA AXI-3 AMBA AXI-3 AMBA AXI-3 AMBA AXI-4 + AMBA4 ACE-Lite
Ready latency support for improved timing No No Yes Yes

Although the HPS and the FPGA logic can operate independently, they are tightly coupled through a high bandwidth system interconnect built from high-performance ARM® Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA® ) Advanced eXtensible Interface (AXI™) bus bridges.

Bus masters on soft logic cores in the FPGA fabric have access to HPS bus slaves through the FPGA-to-HPS bridge. Similarly, HPS bus masters have access to bus slaves in the FPGA through the HPS-to-FPGA bridge.

On Cyclone V, Arria V, and Arria 10 devices, the bridges are AMBA AXI-3 compliant and support simultaneous read and write transactions. Up to three masters in the FPGA fabric can share the HPS SDRAM controller with the processor.

On Stratix 10 devices, the FPGA-to-HPS bridge implements the AXI Coherency Extension (ACE) protocol, and passes through the CCU block.

The processor can be used to configure the core fabric under program control through a dedicated 32-bit configuration port.