Altera integrates dual core ARM A9 processor into 28nm FPGA

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Altera has launched a family of ARM-based SoC FPGAs, integrating 28-nm Cyclone V and Arria V FPGA fabric, a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, error correcting code (ECC) protected memory controllers, peripherals and high-bandwidth interconnect into a single chip.

These SoC FPGAs inherit ARM's ecosystem of software development tools, debuggers,