Microchip PolarFire® FPGAs

Lowest-power, cost-optimized, mid-range FPGAs 

Award-winning PolarFire^® FPGAs deliver the industry’s lowest power at mid-range densities with exceptional security and reliability.

This family of products spans from 100K Logic Elements (LEs) to 500K LEs, features 12.7G transceivers and offers up to 50% lower power than competing mid-range FPGAs. Get started with your design today by downloading the Libero^® SoC PolarFire Design Suite and ordering a PolarFire FPGA development kit that best matches your needs.

Key features

• Cost-optimized, lowest power in their class
• 250 Mbps to 12.7 Gbps transceivers
• 100K to 500K Logic Elements (LEs), up to 33 MB of RAM
• Best-in-class security and exceptional reliability

Additional features

• Architecture and process optimizations for 100K/500K LE devices
• Transceiver performance optimized for 12.7 Gbps, which yields smaller size
• 1.6 Gbps I/Os supporting DDR4/DDR3/LPDDR3, LVDS-hardened I/O gearing logic with CDR (supports SGMII/GbE links on GPIOs)
• Best-in-class high-performance, hardened security IP in mid-range devices
• Small form factor 11 × 11 mm package
• Lowest static power: 1/10 static power compared to competing devices 
• Transceiver optimized for 12.7 Gbps, which yields half the power of competing devices
• Integrated hard IP: DDR PHY, PCIe^® endpoint/root port, crypto processor
• Total power (static and dynamic): up to 50% lower power

Applications

• Machine vision ( Secure communication, High speed I/O )
• Surveillance systems (4k Resolution , Image sensor muxing)
• Drone cameras ( Low power, Hi-Reliability, IP security )
• Medical imaging ( Security, High speed I/O, Instant On )
• Grid infrastructure / HVDC controller
• Energy delivery and automation control