5CSEA5 vs XC7Z014S
A comparison of the Altera Cyclone V 5CSEA5 and the AMD Zynq 7000 XC7Z014S using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| 5CSEA5 | XC7Z014S | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Cyclone V | AMD Zynq 7000 |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 64,140 | 64,960 |
| LUTs as published | 32,070 ALMs | 40,600 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 85,000 LE | 65,000 LC |
| DSP | 87 variable-precision DSP blocks | 170 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 3.9 Mb | 3.8 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 288 | 200 |
| Transceivers | None | None |
| Hard PCI Express | None | None |
| Hard processor | 2× Arm Cortex-A9 | 1× Arm Cortex-A9 |
| Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 3 | 2 |
| Design tool | Altera Quartus Prime | AMD Vivado |
Highlighted values are higher. Logic is compared in LUT4 equivalents; see how FPGA vendors count logic.
Key differences
Both devices offer similar logic capacity: 64.1K and 65K LUT4 equivalents.
They use different logic architectures: the 5CSEA5 is built from ALMs and the XC7Z014S from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (32.1K vs 40.6K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC7Z014S has 170 DSP slices against 87 variable-precision DSP blocks on the 5CSEA5.
The 5CSEA5 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XC7Z014S with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: 5CSEA5 (Cyclone V) and XC7Z014S (Zynq 7000).