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7 years ago

Cyclone V 5CEFA7F23 Temperature Sensor

I'm using Altera FPGA for the first time. The Part is Cyclone V 5CEFA7F23 and I'm wondering if this part has a on die temperature sensor that I can read over JTAG. I've gone thru the datasheets an...
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7 years ago

I'm pretty sure there isn't one. There are sensors in Stratix IV, Stratix V, Arria V, Arria 10, but not in Cyclone V. Temperature sensors are grayed out in the IP Catalog. Sensor IP blocks are named stratixv_tsdblock, arriav_tsdblock, twentynm_tsdblock, etc. and an attempt to create a "cyclonev_tsdblock" results in an error.