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atcold
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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But these docs are outdated and come from other sources.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…

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  • FakhrulA_altera's avatar
    FakhrulA_altera
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    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

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    atcold
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    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's avatar
    FakhrulA_altera
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    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.