Microchip PolarFire® SoC

The 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 25K to 460K Logic Elements (LEs) and feature 12.7 Gbps transceivers. 

Key features

• Deterministic, coherent 64-bit multi-core RISC-V CPU
• 25K to 460K Logical Elements (LEs)
• Up to 50% lower power than alternatives
• Integrated DDR3/4, LPDDR3/4 controller and PHY

Additional features

• Low power, high performance SoC
• Thermal efficiency
• Solutions ~50% power of competition
• Unique AMP mode for mixed real-time and Linux operation
• Defense grade security with Spectre/Meltdown immunity
• Exceptional reliability (SEU Configuration Immune)
• Smallest form factors

Applications

• Secure applications
• Power-efficient compute applications
• Imaging
• Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)
• Industrial automation
• Automotive
• Aerospace and defense
• Wireline access networks
• Cellular infrastructure