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China : Embest Technology launches the Lark Board Full Featured SoC FPGA development kit based on Altera's ARM-based Cyclone V SoC [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Embest Technology has announced the launch of the Lark Board, a high-performance development board based on Altera s Cyclone V SoC. The Lark Board is designed for development of high-volume applications including automotive, medical equipment, video surveillance and industrial control. Jeff Li, Marketing Director of Altera, Greater China said, The launch of Lark Board enables developers to efficiently utilize the advantages of Cyclone V SoC architecture, density and performance, offering a full featured and powerful development platform for embedded system design and development. The Lark Board features a 5CSXFC6D6 SoC FPGA, the largest SoC device in the Cyclone V SX family. This device integrates a FPGA and ARM-based dual-core Hard Processor System (HPS) that operates at speeds up to 800 MHz and is coupled together through an AXI high-speed interconnect backbone to the FPGA fabric. A single monolithic device combines the performance and power savings of hard intellectual property with the flexibility of programmable logic. With an abundance of free software resources the Lark Board is ideal for engineers who want to utilize the strengths of the Cyclone V FPGA with the benefits of dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processors integrated in a single package, reducing overall system cost and power. The Lark Board provides 1GB DDR3 SDRAM to each of the HPS and FPGA as well as 4GB eMMC Flash and a Transflash card slot for mass storage. The Lark Board features several standard I/O interfaces including PCI Express, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI, VGA, 24-bit LCD, a 12-bit camera interface, USB2.0 Host ports, UART, JTAG, and 3G SDI. It also integrates a 12-bit high-speed and high-accuracy ADC with sampling rate up to 105MSPS. The Lark Board uses an Altera Enpirion® power solution to provide a stable and efficient output for all the Cyclone V SoC s power rails. A USB Blaster II has been integrated on the Lark Board to increase the efficiency of FPGA debugging. The onboard USB Blaster supports Quartus® II and ARM DS-5 development environments. The Lark Board comes pre-installed with Yocto, an embedded distribution of Linux with other Linux distributions available to download online. Uma Pingali, Vice-President - Technology Business Division at Premier Farnell said: We are delighted with the opportunity to develop the Lark Board, which highlights Altera s leadership in programmable logic solutions and Embest s design capabilities in embedded products. Engineers will appreciate the power, speed and flexibility this industry leading SoC development kit provides at a price point not normally seen for full-featured FPGA based evaluation boards. The Lark Board is available exclusively from Embest Technology, priced at RMB5800. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |