PolarFire® SoC FPGAs

Microchip's 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 25 K to 460 K logic elements (LEs) and feature 12.7 Gbps transceivers.

Safety-critical systems, system control, and security applications need the flexibility of the Linux operating system (OS) and the determinism of real-time systems to control hardware. Typical symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) implementations may offer the flexibility of a rich operating system but are terrible for running real-time systems needing deterministic performance. 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.