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Difference with Arm Cortex A9

Altera_Forum
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Hello, 

 

I have a Cyclone V board, I was wondering what the difference between that chip and the Cortex A9 is? Does the Cyclone A9 have NEON for example? 

 

Thanks.
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Altera_Forum
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Does the Cyclone A9 have NEON for example? 

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Yes. 

 

The essential difference is the tight integration with the FPGA hardware, resource sharing between processor(s) and FPGA and e.g. upto 100 Gbit/s intercommunication bandwidth.
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