Specifications
Family
Intel (Altera) Cyclone V SE SoC — hard processor system + FPGA fabric
Device
5CSEBA6
MPNs (package / speed variants)
5CSEBA6U19I7N (-U19C8N) · 5CSEBA6U23I7N (-U23C8N) · 5CSEBA6U19A7N (automotive) · 5CSEBA6U23A7N
Process
28 nm low-power (LP) TSMC process
Hard Processor System
Dual-core Arm Cortex-A9 MPCore at up to 925 MHz with NEON SIMD and 512 KB L2 cache
FPGA Logic Elements
110,000 LEs
Adaptive Logic Modules
41,910 ALMs
M10K Memory
5,608 Kb in 5,662 blocks (M10K plus MLAB distributed memory)
Variable-Precision DSP
224 blocks configurable as 9 × 9, 18 × 18 or 27 × 27 fixed-point and 18 × 25 floating-point operations
Hard Memory Controllers
DDR3 / DDR3L / LPDDR2 hard controllers shared between the HPS and FPGA fabric
On-Chip Memory
64 KB HPS on-chip RAM plus FPGA internal memory
Peripheral Set
HPS provides Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0 OTG, SD/MMC, UART, SPI, I²C, CAN, NAND flash controller and DMA
Boot
HPS boots from QSPI flash, SD card, NAND or FPGA fabric — supports Linux, Android and RTOS
Configuration
FPGA fabric configured by the HPS (no external config device needed)
Packages
UBGA484 (U19), FBGA672 (U23), FBGA896
Speed Grades
6, 7, 8 (C, I and A temperature options)
Target Use
Industrial HMI and control, machine vision, motor drives with Linux-class control, secure embedded gateways
Overview
Cyclone V SE is Intel's 28 nm SoC FPGA family, and the 5CSEBA6 pairs a dual-core Arm Cortex-A9 hard processor system running at up to 925 MHz with 110,000 logic elements of FPGA fabric on a single die.
The advantage is architectural: the HPS provides Linux, networking and storage connectivity, while the fabric provides deterministic parallel I/O and DSP that a processor cannot match. The fabric is configured by the HPS itself, so no external configuration device is needed, and the hard DDR3 controller can be shared between the processor and the fabric.
Key Benefits
Linux-capable processor plus FPGA fabric in one package, replacing a CPU + FPGA two-chip solution. 224 variable-precision DSP blocks with native 18 × 25 floating-point support for control algorithms. HPS bootstraps the fabric — no external config flash required.
Applications
Industrial HMI and machine control, machine-vision systems, servo and motor drives requiring hard real-time plus Linux, secure industrial gateways, and medical and instrumentation platforms with long lifecycles.
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