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8 years ago

Cyclone V E Development Board Kit

Hi all, I have Cyclone V E Development board kit. In the user guide, it said the frequency could go up to 810 MHZ by using Clock Control Application. But in the Cyclone V datasheet, it said "Glo...
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8 years ago

Well, FPGAs have the following blocks in them, depending on the type and family of FPGA:

1. IO Pins

2. IO Blocks

3. LUTs - Look up tables

4. LE - Logic Elements/ Logic Blocks

5. SRAM/MRAM blocks - M9K,M20K,etc

6. PLLs

7. Embedded processor Cores - ARM Cortex M9 (depends on FPGA family, not all FPGAs have them)