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Cyclone V Device Handbook missing
Handbook volumes > 2 are missing.
I just want to get started by reading the Device Handbook of my Cyclone V.
I went to: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/fpga/cyclone/v/docs.html
There are 522 manuals!
Searching for "device handbook" returns only:
Cyclone V Device Handbook: Volume 1: Device Interfaces and Integration
Cyclone V Device Handbook: Volume 2: Transceivers
Googling returns this autocompletion:
cyclone v device handbook volume 1
cyclone v device handbook volume 2
cyclone v device handbook volume 3
cyclone v device handbook volume 4
But these docs are outdated and come from other sources.
How is someone supposed to get started when documentation is missing? Help…
Currently, there's only 2 handbooks for CV. The info in those older ones (like HPS stuff) was moved to other documentation (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/programmable/683126/21-2.html). The current two handbooks are it.
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- FakhrulA_altera
Regular Contributor
Hi atcold,
Good day. I have confirmed this internally and there's a number of rev updates since the early 2010s until now. You may refer to the summary of the chronological rev update below:
The old version
Old Volume 1: Device Interfaces and Integration
Old Volume 2: Transceivers
Old Volume 3: Hard Processor System Technical Reference Manual
Old Volume 4: Device Basics
The updated version:
As you can see below old vol 4 (Device Basics) has been divided and made into an updated document as the new Vol 1 and new Vol 2. It may seem overlapped, but as I said there were a number of rev updates activities that have been taken off since then.
Old volume 1 - > New vol 1 (Cyclone V Device Handbook: Volume 1: Device Interfaces and Integration)
Old Volume 2 - > New vol 2 (Cyclone V Device Handbook: Volume 2: Transceivers)
Old Volume 3 -> Cyclone V Hard Processor System Technical Reference Manual (Cyclone V Hard Processor System Technical Reference Manual)
Old volume 4 - > New vol 1 and New vol 2
Hope this can help you.
Regards,
Fakhrul
- atcold
New Contributor
Thanks, @Fakhrul. This indeed clears my doubts.
You can now transition this thread to community support.
P.S. I would recommend having some ‘getting started’ landing page for Cyclone V documentation, where these volumes are orderly listed so that beginners have some guidance. Currently, the wealth of information is overwhelming mostly due to a lack of content organisation.
- FakhrulA_altera
Regular Contributor
Hi atcold,
I’m glad that your question has been addressed, I now transition this thread to community support. If you have a new question, feel free to open a new thread to get the support from Intel experts. Otherwise, the community users will continue to help you on this thread. Thank you.