5CSEA6 vs XC7Z020
A comparison of the Altera Cyclone V 5CSEA6 and the AMD Zynq 7000 XC7Z020 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| 5CSEA6 | XC7Z020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Cyclone V | AMD Zynq 7000 |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 83,820 | 85,120 |
| LUTs as published | 41,910 ALMs | 53,200 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 110,000 LE | 85,000 LC |
| DSP | 112 variable-precision DSP blocks | 220 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 5.4 Mb | 4.9 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 288 | 200 |
| Transceivers | None | None |
| Hard PCI Express | None | None |
| Hard processor | 2× Arm Cortex-A9 | 2× 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: 83.8K and 85.1K LUT4 equivalents.
They use different logic architectures: the 5CSEA6 is built from ALMs and the XC7Z020 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (41.9K vs 53.2K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC7Z020 has 220 DSP slices against 112 variable-precision DSP blocks on the 5CSEA6.
The 5CSEA6 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XC7Z020 with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: 5CSEA6 (Cyclone V) and XC7Z020 (Zynq 7000).