This graph of the EEMBC CoreMark-Pro benchmarks over power consumed illustrates the PolarFire SoC FPGA's low-power advantage.
Built on the award-winning, mid-range, low-power PolarFire FPGA architecture, PolarFire SoC delivers up to 50% lower power than comparable FPGAs.
At 1.3W, PolarFire SoC FPGAs deliver 6,500 CoreMarks while competing SoC FPGAs deliver 0 CoreMarks. PolarFire SoC FPGAs consume 55% lower power at 8,000 CoreMarks.
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Whether you're developing cutting-edge embedded systems, exploring RISC-V®-based architecture or building AI/ML applications, you can refer to this page for resources such tools, software frameworks, design examples and documentation that are available to you on GitHub
PolarFire SoCs combine a deterministic, coherent RISC-V CPU cluster with an L2 memory subsystem for real-time and Linux® applications. Explore comprehensive documentation, reference designs and development tools on GitHub to kick-start your development journey
Browse tools and IP cores for RISC-V soft CPUs on Microchip FPGAs with support for Libero® SoC Design Suite and SoftConsole.
VectorBlox SDK empowers AI/ML developers with tools for efficient Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) inference on PolarFire FPGAs and PolarFire SoC FPGAs. Access development tools, detailed documentation and practical examples on GitHub for your vision projects.
SmartHLS compiler enables high-level synthesis for PolarFire FPGA and PolarFire SoC FPGA designs, allowing you to write in C++ and convert C++ code into optimized RTL. Get started with tools, examples and guides on GitHub.
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.
Security starts during silicon manufacturing and continues through system deployment and operations. Our PolarFire SoC FPGAs represent the industry’s most advanced secure, programmable FPGAs for the latest Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
Secure hardware
Design security
Data security
PMP is implemented in each of the PolarFire SoC FPGA’s processor cores. PMP is used to enforce memory access restrictions in conjunction with the machine's privilege state (machine mode, supervisor mode and user mode).
The PolarFire SoC Microprocessor Subsystem (MSS) configurator is a software tool to configure the PolarFire SoC microprocessor subsystem.
Libero SoC Design Suite offers high productivity with its comprehensive, easy-to-learn, easy-to-adopt development tools for designing with our FPGA device families.
SoftConsole is a software development environment for the rapid development of bare metal- and RTOS-based C/C++ software.
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 Microchip's PolarFire SoC FPGA and RISC-V soft CPU portfolio.
Visit our technical support portal If you need assistance with your PolarFire SoC FPGA-based design.
Try our discussions forum on our GitHub page. Browse the available database of questions and answers, post your questions and support others in the discussions.
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.
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.
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.
This latest-generation programmer supports the Windows® and Linux® operating systems in conjunction with Libero® SoC Design Suite, FlashPro Express and SmartDebug software.
This fifth-generation programmer supports Windows and Linux environments.
This fourth-generation hardware programmer supports only Windows environments.
ChipPro is a quick and easy device programming solution for our FPGA devices.
An optional In-House Programming (IHP) service is available if you are purchasing our devices in large volumes.