Boards & Solutions
Overview
Microsemi FPGA Families that support RISC-V and relates Hardware and Solutions
For information on how to run projects please refer to Soft CPU Getting Started page
PolarFire FPGAs
PolarFire Cost-optimized FPGAs Deliver the Lowest Power at Mid-range Densities with 12.7 Gbps SerDes transceivers as well as best-in-class security and reliability
RTG4 Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs
High-speed signal processing, flash-based FPGAs with 300 MHz performance, and150K LEs. Example RISC-V projects exist for:
IGLOO2 FPGAs
IGLOO2 FPGAs are the most feature rich low density devices with 5K to 150K logic elements, PCIe Gen2 support in 10K LE devices and above, and a high performance memory subsystem. Example RISC-V projects exist for
- IGLOO2 Creative Development Board designed by Future Electronics - RISC-V GitHub Resources
SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs
- SmartFusion2 Security Evaluation Kit - RISC-V GitHub Resources
- SmartFusion2 Advanced Development Kit - RISC-V GitHub Resources
- SmartFusion2 Creative Board - RISC-V GitHub Resources
FlashPro Programmer
Supports device in system programming and hardware and firmware debugging
Partner Boards
Future Electronics
The Future-designed Creative Development Board, featuring Microsemi's IGLOO2 FPGA is pre-programmed with a RISC-V core and peripherals. The IGLOO2 RISC-V Creative Development Board boasts a 25K logic element (LE) FPGA, offering the lowest cost of entry for both software and hardware engineers who want to evaluate and implement their own unique designs. The out of the box demo is the RISC-V core running a hello world demo.
- IGLOO2 Creative Development Board designed by Future Electronics - RISC-V GitHub Resources
SiFive
As part of their collaboration within the Mi-V ecosystem, SiFive and Microsemi are jointly creating the HiFive Unleashed, a hardware and software development platform based on SiFive’s Freedom Unleashed 500 (Freedom U500) system-on-chip (SoC) featuring the U54-MC RISC-V Core IP as well as Microsemi’s lowest power, cost-optimized mid-range PolarFire FPGA family. The collaboration and development platform will enable firmware, kernel and driver development engineers to develop their own RISC-V designs with operating systems such as Linux. The Microsemi/SiFive platform with its open ISA and core architecture will be ideal for a variety of applications within the aerospace and defense, industrial and security markets, including industrial internet of things (IoT), security and trust, space, industrial controls and avionics.