The DE1-SoC Development Kit presents a robust hardware design platform built around the Altera System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGA, which combines the latest dual-core Cortex-A9 embedded cores with industry-leading programmable logic for ultimate design flexibility. Users can now leverage the power of tremendous re-configurability paired with a high-performance, low-power processor system. Altera’s SoC integrates an ARM-based hard processor system (HPS) consisting of processor, peripherals and memory interfaces tied seamlessly with the FPGA fabric using a high-bandwidth interconnect backbone. The DE1-SoC development board includes hardware such as high-speed DDR3 memory, video and audio capabilities, Ethernet networking, and much more.
The DE1-SOC Development Kit contains all components needed to use the board in conjunction with a computer that runs the Microsoft Windows XP or later ( 64-bit OS and Quartus II 64-bit are required to compile projects for DE1-SoC  ). 

The DE1-SoC board has many features that allow users to implement a wide range of designed circuits, from simple circuits to various multimedia projects.

The following hardware is provided on the board:

FPGA Device

• Cyclone V SoC 5CSEMA5F31C6 Device
• Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 (HPS)
• 85K Programmable Logic Elements
• 4,450 Kbits embedded memory
• 6 Fractional PLLs
• 2 Hard Memory Controllers

Configuration and Debug

• Quad Serial Configuration device – EPCQ256 on FPGA
• On-Board USB Blaster II (Normal type B USB connector)

Memory Device

• 64MB (32Mx16) SDRAM on FPGA
• 1GB (2x256Mx16) DDR3 SDRAM on HPS
• Micro SD Card Socket on HPS

Communication

• Two Port USB 2.0 Host (ULPI interface with USB type A connector)
• USB to UART (micro USB type B connector)
• 10/100/1000 Ethernet
• PS/2 mouse/keyboard
• IR Emitter/Receiver

Connectors

• Two 40-pin Expansion Headers
• One 10-pin ADC Input Header
• One LTC connector (One Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Master ,one I2C and one GPIO interface )

Display

• 24-bit VGA DAC

Audio

• 24-bit CODEC, Line-in, line-out, and microphone-in jacks

Video Input

• TV Decoder (NTSC/PAL/SECAM) and TV-in connector

ADC

• Fast throughput rate: 1 MSPS
• Channel number: 8
• Resolution: 12 bits
• Analog input range : 0 ~ 2.5 V or 0 ~ 5V as selected via the RANGE bit in the control register

Switches, Buttons and Indicators

• 4 User Keys (FPGA x4)
• 10 User switches (FPGA x10)
• 11 User LEDs (FPGA x10 ; HPS x 1)
• 2 HPS Reset Buttons (HPS_RST_n and HPS_WARM_RST_n)
• Six 7-segment displays

Sensors

• G-Sensor on HPS

Power

• 12V DC input

Block Diagram of the DE1-SOC Board

• Size：166*130 mm

How to distinguish Rev B, Rev C and Rev D board?

Documents

Title	Version	Size(KB)	Date Added	Download
DE1-SoC User Manual(rev.C/rev.D Board)	1.1	10829	2014-06-11
DE1-SoC User Manual(rev.B Board)	1.0	9830	2014-02-07
DE1-SoC Learning Roadmap	1.0	2079	2014-02-07

Please note that all the source codes are provided "as is". For further support or modification, please contactTerasic Support and your request will be transferred to Terasic Design Service.
More resources about IP and Dev. Kit are available on Altera User Forums.

CD-ROM

Title	Version	Size(KB)	Date Added	Download
Quartus Download			2013-12-26
DE1-SoC CD-ROM (rev.B Board)	1.2.0		2014-03-25
DE1-SoC CD-ROM (rev.C/rev.D Board)	3.1.0		2014-08-25

(  64-bit OS and Quartus II 64-bit  are required to compile projects for DE1-SoC  ) 
 

Linux BSP (Board Support Package): MicroSD Card Image

Title	Linux Kernel	Min. microSD Capacity	Size(KB)	Date Added	Download
Linux Console	3.12	4GB	66495	2014-01-14
Linux Console with framebuffer	3.12	4GB	328524	2014-03-24
Linux LXDE Desktop	3.12	8GB	1369526	2014-03-21
Linux Ubuntu Desktop	3.12	8GB	1136075	2014-02-11