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PolarFire® SoC FPGAs

Microchip's PolarFire is a low-power, multi-core RISC-V SoC FPGA

Image of Microchip's PolarFire® SoC FPGAsMicrochip's PolarFire® SoC FPGA family delivers a combination of low power consumption, thermal efficiency, and defense-grade security for smart, connected systems. It is the first system-on-chip (SoC) FPGA with a deterministic, coherent RISC-V CPU cluster and a deterministic L2 memory subsystem for creating Linux® and real-time applications. PolarFire SoC FPGAs span from 25 K to 460 K logic elements (LEs) and feature 12.7 Gbps transceivers.

Safety-critical systems, system control, and security applications need the flexibility of the Linux operating system (OS) and the determinism of real-time systems to control hardware. Typical symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) implementations may offer the flexibility of a rich operating system but are terrible for running real-time systems needing deterministic performance. PolarFire SoC FPGAs feature a multi-core Linux-capable processor that is coherent with the memory subsystem, allowing a versatile mix of deterministic real-time systems and the Linux OS in a single multi-core CPU cluster. PolarFire SoC FPGAs create high-performance and hard real-time systems.

Features
  • FPGA fabric
    • 25 K to 460 K logic elements (4-input LUT + DFF)
    • 784 math blocks (18 MACC x 18 MACC)
    • 16 SerDes lanes of 12.7 Gbps
  • Memory interfaces
    • 36-bit DDR4/DDR3/LPDDR4/LPDDR3 memory controller with SECDED
  • Communication interfaces
    • 2x GigE MACs, USB 2.0 OTG, 5x multi-mode UARTs, 2x SPI, 2x I2C, 2x CAN 2.0
  • Controllers
    • 2x PCIe® Gen2 endpoints/root ports
  • Microprocessor subsystem
  • Processor
    • 1x 64-bit RV64IMAC monitor/boot core
    • 4x 64-bit RV64GC application cores
    • FMAX of 667 MHz (-40°C to +100°C TJ)
    • 3.125 CoreMark®/MHz, 1.714 DMIPS/MHz
  • Storage
    • MMC 5.1 SD/SDIO
    • 1x Quad SPI Flash controller
    • 128 KB eNVM
    • 56 KB sNVM

Kits

ImageManufacturer Part NumberDescriptionAvailable QuantityPriceView Details
POLARFIRE SOC FPGA ICICLE KITMPFS-ICICLE-KIT-ESPOLARFIRE SOC FPGA ICICLE KIT73 - Immediate$5,177.94View Details
EVAL BOARD FOR MPFS250MPFS250-VIDEO-KITEVAL BOARD FOR MPFS2501 - Immediate$16,844.54View Details

ICs

ImageManufacturer Part NumberDescriptionAvailable QuantityPriceView Details
IC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGAMPFS250T-FCSG536IIC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGA0 - Immediate$3,761.21View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 1152FCBGAMPFS250T-1FCG1152IIC SOC RISC-V 1152FCBGA4 - Immediate$4,318.99View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGAMPFS250T-FCVG484EIC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGA30 - Immediate$3,108.27View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGAMPFS250T-FCSG536EIC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGA41 - Immediate$3,419.14View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGAMPFS250T-FCVG484IIC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGA54 - Immediate$3,419.14View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 784FCBGAMPFS250T-1FCVG784EIC SOC RISC-V 784FCBGA2 - Immediate$3,599.21View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 784FCBGAMPFS250TL-FCVG784EIC SOC RISC-V 784FCBGA2 - Immediate$3,926.34View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 784FCBGAMPFS250T-1FCVG784IIC SOC RISC-V 784FCBGA2 - Immediate$3,926.34View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 1152FCBGAMPFS250T-1FCG1152EIC SOC RISC-V 1152FCBGA4 - Immediate$3,959.02View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 1152FCBGAMPFS250T-FCG1152IIC SOC RISC-V 1152FCBGA10 - Immediate$3,959.02View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGAMPFS250TL-FCVG484IIC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGA2 - Immediate$4,040.88View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGAMPFS250TL-FCSG536EIC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGA2 - Immediate$4,103.04View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 784FCBGAMPFS250TS-FCVG784IIC SOC RISC-V 784FCBGA2 - Immediate$4,618.19View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 784FCBGAMPFS250TL-FCVG784IIC SOC RISC-V 784FCBGA2 - Immediate$4,253.63View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 1152FCBGAMPFS250TL-FCG1152EIC SOC RISC-V 1152FCBGA2 - Immediate$4,318.99View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGAMPFS250TLS-FCVG484IIC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGA10 - Immediate$4,724.69View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGAMPFS250TS-FCSG536IIC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGA4 - Immediate$4,825.93View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGAMPFS250TL-FCSG536IIC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGA18 - Immediate$4,444.94View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 784FCBGAMPFS250TLS-FCVG784IIC SOC RISC-V 784FCBGA11 - Immediate$4,973.32View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 784FCBGAMPFS250TS-1FCVG784IIC SOC RISC-V 784FCBGA2 - Immediate$4,973.32View Details
Published: 2022-09-20

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