FPGA Defense Applications
Enabling Security While Lowering Size, Weight, and Power
Overview
For the modern soldier to be successful in the battlefield, it is imperative that they be equipped with gear that delivers high-tech capabilities at the lowest size and weight possible. Mission life is as key as portability, and power consumption is a decisive factor. PolarFire FPGA provide high bandwidth radio and image signal processing capabilities at a fraction of the power of competing FPGAs. Microsemi also delivers best-in-class anti-tamper and data security capabilities in cost-efficient FPGAs for Foreign Military Sales, smart munitions, radar, and secure radios.
Microsemi offers a broad portfolio of High-Performance Electronics for Defense & Security
Defense and Aviation Applications
- Encryption and root of trust
- Secure wireless communications
- Smart munitions
- Radar and electronic warfare
- Military network attached storage
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Handheld Military Radio
PolarFire Compelling Features
- DSP blocks with hardened pre-address running at 450 MHz for high speed radio and image signal processing
- GPIOs supporting ADC/DACs at up to 1.6 Gbps
- Up to 50% lower total power
- Non-volatile, instant-on
- Best-in-class security and secure manufacturing
- Athena TeraFire® Cryptographic Processor
- All of the security features in IGLOO2/SmartFusion2 and many more
- Exceptional reliability—immune to configuration SEU
SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA and IGLOO2 FPGA
Microsemi has supported high reliability defense applications for over 30 years. Through this partnership we have gained insight into enabling our customers to excel in the applications they create. SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs fully tested defense grade FPGAs take this partnership to a new level. Key benefits of SmartFusion2 and IGLOO2 Military Temperature devices:
- A complete product family of military temperature SoC FPGA and FPGAs ranging from 10K Logic Elements to 150K Logic Elements
- Built-in tamper detection and zeroization capabilities in all devices to enable Foreign Military Sales
- Access to cryptographic accelerators and features in Data Security “S” devices
- Elliptical Curve Cryptography
- Physically Unclonable Function
- Random Number Generator
- CRI DPA Pass through license built-in
- AES256, SHA256 accelerators
- Built-in PCI Express Gen1 Endpoints starting at 10K Logic Elements
- Zero FIT FPGA Configuration Cells
- SECDED memory protection on ASIC memory blocks
- Low power operation
- Single chip operation for small form factor applications
Products
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PolarFire FPGA |
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IGLOO2 FPGA
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SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA
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Military grade products are also available for ProASIC3EL, Axcelerator, SX-A, and MX.
Resources
PolarFire Resources
SmartFusion2 and IGLOO2 Resources
| SmartFusion2 Product Brief |
| SmartFusion2 Data Security Product Brief |
| IGLOO2 Product Brief |
| IGLOO2 Data Security Product Brief |
Military grade products are also available for ProASIC3, ProASIC3EL, Axcelerator, SX-A and MX FPGAs.
