Mercury+ AA1

The Mercury+ AA1 system-on-chip (SoC) module combines Intel’s Arria 10 ARM Processor-based SoC FPGA with fast DDR4 ECC SDRAM, eMMC flash, quad SPI flash, Gigabit Ethernet PHY and an RTC and thus forms a high-performance embedded processing solution, combining the flexibility of a CPU system with the raw, real-time parallel processing power of an FPGA.

• Built around the Intel Arria® 10 ARM® Processor-based SoC FPGA
• Offers USB 3.0, PCIe® Gen3 x8 and Gigabit Ethernet interface
• DDR4 SDRAM with Error Correction Code (ECC)
• 9.6 GByte/s memory bandwith
• Available in industrial-grade temperature range
• Smaller than a credit card
• Linux BSP and tool chain available
• Powerful and compact FPGA board

• A complete and powerful embedded processing system in a compact, space-saving form factor
• Large, high-bandwidth memory, with up to 4 GByte of DDR4 ECC SDRAM
• High-bandwidth data transfer; PCIe® Gen3 x8 interface, and a high number of available LVDS pairs provide high-speed data I/O at low integration cost
• Lowest power consumption due to the high-efficiency DC/DC converters
• Support for Linux operating systems

• Intel Arria® 10 ARM® Processor-based SoC FPGA
  • ARM® dual-core Cortex™-A9
    (32 bit, up to 1.5 GHz)
  • Intel Arria 10 20 nm FPGA fabric
• Small form factor (74 × 54 mm)
• 286 user I/Os
  • 18 ARM peripheral I/Os (SPI, SDIO, I2C, UART)
  • 212 FPGA I/Os (single-ended or differential)
    • 168 FPGA I/Os
    • 44 FPGA I/Os shared with USB 3.0
  • 56 MGT signals (clock and data)
• Up to 4 GByte DDR4 ECC SDRAM
• 16 GByte eMMC flash
• 64 MByte quad SPI flash
• PCIe® Gen3 x8
• 12 × 10.3125/12.5 Gbit/sec MGTs
• Gigabit Ethernet
• USB 3.0 device controller
• USB 2.0 host/device
• UART, SPI, I2C, SDIO/MMC
• 5 to 15 V supply voltage

• Embedded Computing
• Data Acquisition
• High-Speed Communications
• Drive/Motion Control
• Digital Signal Processing
• Image Processing

• Mercury+ ST1 Base Board
• Mercury+ PE1 PCIe Base Board
• Universal Drive Controller IP Core