First development kit featuring production silicon Altera Agilex 5 FPGA

Arrow Electronics now offers its new FPGA development platform, the AXE5000 starter kit, featuring the world's first production silicon Altera Agilex 5 FPGA. This release supplies engineers with an opportunity to evaluate and develop designs with a production-ready device.

Building on the successful launch of the Agilex 5 AXE5-Eagle development kit in 2024, the AXE5000 starter kit is the second addition to the company's Agilex 5 development kit lineup. The series devices are known for their outstanding performance-per-watt in compact form factors, making them excellent for a wide range of FPGA applications. With logic sizes spanning from 50k to 656k Logic Elements (LEs) and scaling down to 15mm x 15mm through different package sizes, these FPGAs offer considerable flexibility.

The Agilex 5 is the industry's first FPGA to incorporate AI capabilities through the adoption of AI tensor blocks within its enhanced DSP block, providing high-performance AI and DSP functionalities. Also, the Agilex 5 achieves superior performance thanks to its second-generation Hyperflex FPGA Architecture.

The company's AXE5000 Starter Kit helps customers evaluate the features of Altera Agilex 5 E-series and speeds up product development. With the CRUVI HS connector and Arduino MKR standard pads, different adapter boards can be connected to this kit, like a 2k camera, video output, memory, ADC/DACs, sensors and much more. The start kit can also be modified and redesigned for customisation purposes.