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The fourth industrial revolution integrates connectivity and automation, supported by an increased focus on real-time analytics. It is also driving the shift in intelligent process loads from the cloud to the edge of the industrial networks to enable decentralized decision making. The edge of these networks will need to be miniaturized for low physical footprints and to be hacking immune. Our FPGAs offer increased design customizability, advanced data and design security features at small footprints and up to 50% lower power than the competition. Supplemented with the availability of end-to-end design and development tools, IPs and solutions, our FPGAs are an ideal fit for machine vision, robotics, thermal imaging and other industrial technologies that require power-efficient, accelerated processing.
Our FPGAs incorporate essential technologies and protocols fundamental to robotic designs. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of Smart Embedded Vision (SEV), multi-axis motor control, Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), OPC UA, Robot Operating System (ROS) 2, Machine Learning (ML) and functional safety products for your next smart robotic application.
FPGAs for Medical Imaging
Explore how our advanced FPGA solutions optimize medical imaging systems with high-speed processing, low-latency performance, and precise control. Our products support cutting-edge technologies in ultrasound, MRI, and CT applications, delivering enhanced image quality and diagnostic accuracy.
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Linux® and Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOSs) on PolarFire® SoCs
The Linux SDK for PolarFire SoCs is available in Yocto and Buildroot environments. The SDK comes with support for system firmware that handles secure system boot, secure bootloader, crypto services and inter-CPU messaging. The SDK includes driver support for all the microprocessor (MPU) sub-system peripherals and common soft IPs supported for the FPGA fabric. We extend support for various open-source and commercial RTOSs for PolarFire SoCs. You may choose to use our free Eclipse-based SoftConsole development environment or third-party environments to develop your bare metal- or RTOS-based embedded firmware. Open-source RTOS ports on PolarFire SoCs are available as example projects. Commercial RTOSs that include advanced scheduling, memory management and file systems are available from corresponding vendors.
10G-Ethernet MAC
We designed the Core10GMAC for the IEEE® 802.3-2012 specification and to support 10GBASE-R, 10GBASE-KR and XGMII interfaces. This configurable core provides the complete MAC and PHY layer when used with a transceiver interface.
USXGMII for Multi-Gigabit Technology
The Core Universal Serial Media Independent Interface (USXGMII) IP carries a single network port over a single SerDes between the MAC and the PHY for multi-gigabit technology at 1G/2.5G/5G/10G data rate.
USB 3.2
A USB-IF-certified, full-featured PC host, device and dual-role can support USB 3.2 Gen 1 devices at 5 Gbps or USB 3.2 Gen 2 devices at 10 Gbps from our IP partner Corigine.
Anybus®
The Anybus CompactCom 40 series of products for industrial Ethernet solutions is based on our SmartFusion® 2 SoC FPGA devices. The highly secure Anybus CompactCom products offer you a lower total cost of ownership and accelerated time to market with a multi-protocol solution that covers all major industrial Ethernet networks and well-established Fieldbus networks. The Anybus CompactCom solution makes it possible to use or design one common Ethernet hardware platform and then download any industrial Ethernet protocol software.
EtherCAT®
Our partner Trinamic's EtherCAT solution includes a plugfest-tested EtherCAT IP and chip solution (TMC8460) for SmartFusion 2 SoC FPGAs. The EtherCAT solution is suitable for applications such as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), motor drive/motion drive control, safety Input/Output (I/O) modules and other applications that require EtherCAT communications.
Industrial Vision
VectorBlox™ Accelerator
The VectorBlox Accelerator Software Development Kit (SDK) offers the most power-efficient Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) /Machine Learning (ML) inference with PolarFire FPGAs. It contains different tools that compile a neural network description from frameworks like TensorFlow and ONNX into a Binary Large Object (BLOB). These BLOBs are stored in Flash and loaded into the DDR memory during execution.
Smart Embedded Vision (SEV) With PolarFire FPGAs and PolarFire SoC FPGAs
As compute workloads move to the edge, PolarFire FPGAs and PolarFire SoC FPGAs present an ideal choice for a new range of compute-intensive edge devices, including those deployed in thermally and power-constrained environments. They are the only mid-range device of their kind that supports dual 4K video processing and quad-core RISC-V® application-class processors running RTOSs and rich operating systems like Linux®. SEV solutions include video, imaging, Machine Learning (ML) IP and application-specific development tools to quickly prototype embedded vision applications including MIPI® CSI-2, HDMI® 2.0, MIPI DSI, 12G SDI, USXGMII and CoaXPress 2.0.
Motor Control
Precision
High Performance
Determinism
Scalability
The industrial edge has emerged as an established norm for industrial automation requirements that require more than what centralized computing architectures can offer. The most significant design challenge for an edge device is to design for thermally constrained, small power budgets. Although the goal is complete integration at low costs, equally critical considerations are security and reliability to ensure authentic, tamper-proof and safe inferences and communication.
Our PolarFire SoC FPGA is an intelligent choice for industrial edge applications such as robotics, low-power medical imaging, process control and automation, industrial image processing and analytics, multi-axis motion control, video broadcast equipment and more.
The PolarFire SoC implementation of the OPC UA protocol uses a client-server architecture; the server services data requests that are initiated by the client. PolarFire SoCs can be configured both as a server and a client.
Functional Safety
We are committed to providing you with FPGAs for safety-critical designs. Our functional safety design flow simplifies and accelerates safety certifications supporting IEC 61508 and ISO 26262 standards. Our Flash FPGAs can help you meet the established standards for safety and reliability.
Featured Products
PolarFire SoC FPGAs
PolarFire SoC FPGAs deliver up to 50% lower power than equivalent SRAM SoC FPGAs. We built PolarFire SoCs upon the award-winning, nonvolatile PolarFire FPGA platform. They feature a five-core Linux-capable processor subsystem based on the RISC-V ISA.
PolarFire FPGAs
Our 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
SmartFusion® 2 FPGAs
Optimize design size and power consumption using these low-density, low-power devices. SmartFusion 2 SoC FPGAs bring proven security and exceptional reliability to communications, industrial, medical, defense and aviation applications.
IGLOO® 2 FPGAs
IGLOO 2 Flash FPGA devices are ideal for general-purpose functions such as Gigabit Ethernet or dual PCI Express® control planes, bridging functions, I/O expansion and conversion, video/image processing, system management and secure connectivity.
Development Platforms
We offer an extensive range of FPGA-based evaluation boards, development kits, add-on daughter cards and programming and debug hardware to enable quick prototyping of products and applications. We also provide easily accessible demonstration guides, application notes and sample designs to accelerate your time to market.
FPGA Webinars
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