PolarFire™ Evaluation Kit

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            PolarFire™ Evaluation Kit
                    The PolarFire evaluation kit from Microsemi offers high-performance evaluation across a broad class of applications
    

Microsemi's PolarFire evaluation kit offers high-performance evaluation across a broad class of applications. This kit is ideally suited for high-speed transceiver evaluation, 10 Gb Ethernet, IEEE1588, JESD204B, SyncE, SATA, and more. The kit connections include a high pin count (HPC) FPGA mezzanine card (FMC), numerous SMAs, PCIe, Dual Gigabit Ethernet RJ45, SFP+, and USB. A 300K logic element (LE) PolarFire FPGA with DDR4, DDR3, and SPI-Flash allow a broad class of high-performance designs to be developed.

Kit contents include: (1) PolarFire eval kit board with MPF300TS-1FCG1152I device, (1) 12 V power pack / AC adapter, (1) USB 2.0 A male to Mini-B, (1) QuickStart card, and (1) One-year Libero Gold Software License ($995 value).

Hardware Features
300K LE PolarFire FPGA in an FCG1152 package (MPF300TS-1FCG1152I) HPC FMC connector 1x SFP+ cage IEEE1588 PLL SMA connectors for testing of full-duplex 12.7 Gbps SERDES channel 4 GB DDR4 x32 and 2 GB DDR3 x16 PCI Express (x4) edge connector 2 x RJ45 for 10/100/1000 Ethernet using SGMII on GPIO	Dual 10/100/1000BASE-T PHY (VSC8575) for SyncE and 1588 application SATA interface Power management unit for 1 or 1.05 V PolarFire FPGA core voltage USB to UART interface Embedded programming and debugging using SPI and JTAG On-board power monitoring 2 x 1 Gb SPI Flash memory