First RISC-V® Based, Radiation-Tolerant System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGA

Our radiation-tolerant PolarFire® SoC FPGA is the industry’s first embedded, real-time, Linux®-capable, RISC-V-based Microprocessor Subsystem (MSS) on the flight-proven, radiation-tolerant PolarFire FPGA fabric. Unlike SRAM-based alternatives, these devices bring low power consumption and zero configuration upsets to embedded systems. These devices are supported by our extensive Mi-V ecosystem for RISC-V-based solution stack development.

Radiation-Tolerant PolarFire SoC FPGAs

Key Benefits

Low Power Consumption

  • 40% to 50% lower total FPGA power consumption than competing SRAM FPGAs
  • Low-power MSS, consuming 55% lower power than competing SoC FPGAs at a CoreMark® score of 8,000

Radiation Tolerance

  • 100 Krad Total Ionizing Dose (TID)
  • Complete absence of configuration upsets
  • Single-Event Latch-Up (SEL) threshold that exceeds 75 MeV.cm2/mg with 2.5V I/Os

Qualification for Space Flight

  • Hermetically sealed ceramic package with 1.0 mm column pitch and Six Sigma columns designed to support QML class Q and QML class V qualification
  • Organic ball-grid-array plastic package with a path to JEDEC and QML class Y qualification

Product Table

Notes:

  1. L2 can be configured as cache or RAM. The minimum cache size is 128 KB and the maximum RAM size is 1920 KB. This can be allocated in blocks of 128 KB.

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Mi-V Ecosystem

The Mi-V RISC-V ecosystem is a continuously expanding, comprehensive suite of tools and design resources developed by Microchip and numerous third parties to fully support RISC-V designs. The Mi-V ecosystem aims to increase adoption of the RISC-V ISA and our PolarFire SoC FPGA and RISC-V soft CPU portfolio.

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Kits and Hardware

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PolarFire® SoC Icicle Kit

The PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit runs Linux® out of the box and evaluates the microprocessor (MPU) subsystem, FPGA fabric, PCIe®, Gigabit Ethernet, CAN, USB and more.

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PolarFire® SoC Video Kit 

The PolarFire SoC Video Kit is a full-featured embedded vision development platform targeting secure, reliable and power-efficient vision applications at the edge, including our VectorBlox™ Accelerator SDK and Neural Network IP, and Industrial IoT (IIoT) and automation applications.

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PolarFire® SoC Discovery Kit

The PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit is a low-cost, open-source development kit powered by a quad-core, RISC-V application-class processor. This device supports Linux® and real-time applications, a rich set of peripherals and 95K low-power, high-performance FPGA logic elements.

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Programmers and Adapters

FlashPro6

This latest-generation programmer supports  the Windows® and Linux® operating systems in conjunction with Libero® SoC Design Suite, FlashPro Express and SmartDebug software.

FlashPro5

This fifth-generation programmer supports Windows and Linux environments.

FlashPro4

This fourth-generation hardware programmer supports only Windows environments.

Silicon Sculptor 4

This is a CE-compliant production device programmer.

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