PolarFire FPGAs

Lowest Power, Cost-Optimized, Mid-Range FPGAs

Overview

Award-winning PolarFire FPGAs deliver the industry’s lowest power at mid-range densities with exceptional security and reliability. The product family 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. The devices are ideal for a wide range of applications within wireline access networks and cellular infrastructure, defense and commercial aviation markets, as well as industrial automation and IoT markets. Get started with your design today by downloading the Libero SoC PolarFire Design Suite and ordering a PolarFire development kit that best matches your needs.

2017 PolarFire Awards

Cost-optimized Architecture

Architecture and process optimizations for 100K/500K LE devices
Transceiver performance optimized for 12.7 Gbps, which yields smaller size
1.6 Gbps I/Os supporting DDR4/DDR3/LPDDR3, LVDS - hardened I/O gearing logic with CDR (supports SGMII/GbE links on GPIOs)
Best-in-class high-performance, hardened security IP in mid-range devices

Power Optimization

The lowest static power—1/10 static power vs. competing devices
Transceiver optimized for 12.7 Gbps, which yields 1/2 the power vs. competing devices
Low power Flash*Freeze mode yields best-in-class standby power
Integrated hard IP—DDR PHY, PCIe endpoint/root port, crypto processor
Total power (static and dynamic)—up to 50% lower power

Introducing PolarFire FPGAs

PolarFire Low Power Features

Solving Key Market Issues (Click to Learn More)

Communications	Defense	Industrial

"We are impressed with the PolarFire FPGA family, and in particular its transceiver performance/power specifications. This becomes critical to us when considering products requiring high SerDes port density at very high transceiver rates, for example high definition uncompressed digital video switching and multiplexing systems." - Microsemi Customer

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PolarFire FPGA Architecture

PolarFire FPGAs deliver up to 500K logic elements, 12.7G transceivers at 50% lower power.

Product Table

PolarFire Product Family

	Features	PolarFire FPGA
	Features	MPF100T	MPF200T	MPF300T	MPF500T
FPGA Fabric	Logic Elements (4LUT + DFF)	109K	192K	300K	481K
	Math Blocks (18x18 MACC)	336	588	924	1480
	LSRAM Blocks (20k bit)	352	616	952	1520
	uSRAM Blocks (64x12)	1008	1764	2772	4440
	Total RAM Mbits	7.6 Mbits	13.3 Mbits	20.6 Mbits	33 Mbits
	uPROM Kbits	297 Kbits	297 Kbits	459 Kbits	513 Kbits
	User DLL's/PLL's	8 each	8 each	8 each	8 each
High Speed I/O	250 Mbps to 12.5 Gbps SERDES Lanes	8	16	16	24
High Speed I/O	PCIe Gen2 End Points/Root Ports	2	2	2	2
Total IO	Total User IO	284	368	512	584
Packaging	Type/Size/Pitch	Total User I/O(HSIO/GPIO)/XCVRs
	FCSG325 (11x11, 11x14.5*, 0.5 mm)	170(84/86)/4	170(84/86)/4*
	FCSG536 (16x16, 0.5 mm)		300(120/180)/4	300(120/180)/4
	FCVG484 (19x19, 0.8 mm)	284(120/164)/4	284(120/164)/4	284(120/164)/4
	FCG484 (23x23, 1.0 mm)	244(96/148)/8	244(96/148)/8	244(96/148)/8
	FCG784 (29x29, 1.0 mm)		364(132/232)/16	388(156/232)/16	388(156/232)/16
	FCG1152 (35x35, 1.0 mm)			512(276/236)/16	584(324/260)/24
Devices in the same package and family type are pin compatible

PolarFire FPGAs offer various device offerings such as design security with transceivers, low power transceiver devices, data security with transceivers, and low power data security with transceiver devices. All PolarFire FPGAs are integrated with multi-protocol industry-leading low-power transceivers. Low power (L) devices provide up to 35% lower static power. Also, data security (S) devices have an integrated DPA safe crypto accelerator. PolarFire Devices are currently offered in Extended Commercial (0ºC to 100ºC) and Industrial (–40ºC to 100ºC) device offerings.

Smallest Form Factor Solutions

Microsemi's PolarFire FPGAs are available in the smallest form factors for mid-range density devices. For example, the MPF100 device is available in a 11x11 mm package. In addition, Microsemi's PolarFire devices do not require external configuration memories that are typically required for SRAM based FPGAs.

Documentation

Product Information

PolarFire FPGA Product Brochure	2/2018
Microsemi Product Line-Up	2/2017

White Papers

PolarFire FPGA White Paper PolarFire™ Non-Volatile FPGA Family Delivers Ground-Breaking Value	10/2017
WP0214: Energy Efficient Digital Frontend Designs With PolarFire FPGAs For Small Cells	02/2018
WP0216: Efficient INT8 Dot Product using Microsemi Math Block	05/2018

Datasheet

PO0137: PolarFire FPGA Product Overview	6/2018
DS0141: PolarFire FPGA Datasheet	6/2018
DS0143: PolarFire FPGA MPF300XT Datasheet	6/2018
ER0207: PolarFire FPGA ES Devices Errata	6/2018
ER0215: PolarFire FPGA MPF300XT Devices Errata	5/2018
ER0217: PolarFire FPGA Pre-Production Devices Errata	6/2018

Packaging

UG0722: PolarFire FPGA Packaging and Pin Descriptions User Guide	1/2018
MPF100T/MPF100TS-FCSG325 Package Pin Assignment Table MPF100T/MPF100TS-FCG484 Package Pin Assignment Table MPF100T/MPF100TS-FCVG484 Package Pin Assignment Table	3/2018
MPF200T/MPF200TS-FCSG325 Package Pin Assignment Table MPF200T/MPF200TS-FCG484 Package Pin Assignment Table MPF200T/MPF200TS-FCVG484 Package Pin Assignment Table MPF200T/MPF200TS-FCSG536 Package Pin Assignment Table MPF200T/MPF200TS-FCG784 Package Pin Assignment Table	3/2018
MPF300T/MPF300TS-FCG484 Package Pin Assignment Table MPF300T/MPF300TS-FCVG484 Package Pin Assignment Table MPF300T/MPF300TS-FCSG536 Package Pin Assignment Table MPF300T/MPF300TS-FCG784 Package Pin Assignment Table MPF300T/MPF300TS-FCG1152 Package Pin Assignment Table	3/2018
MPF500T/MPF500TS-FCG784 Package Pin Assignment Table MPF500T/MPF500TS-FCG1152 Package Pin Assignment Table	3/2018

Power Estimation

PolarFire Power Estimator	4/2018
UG0752: PolarFire FPGA Power Estimator User Guide - v3e	4/2018

User Guides

UG0680: PolarFire FPGA Fabric User Guide	03/2018
UG0684: PolarFire FPGA Clocking Resources User Guide	05/2018
UG0686: PolarFire FPGA User I/O User Guide	02/2017
UG0677: PolarFire FPGA Transceiver User Guide	01/2018
UG0685: PolarFire FPGA PCI Express User Guide	04/2018
UG0687: PolarFire FPGA 1G Ethernet Solutions User Guide	11/2017
UG0727: PolarFire FPGA 10G Ethernet Solutions User Guide	04/2018
UG0676: PolarFire FPGA Memory Controller User Guide	04/2018
UG0748: PolarFire FPGA Low Power User Guide	04/2018
Athena TeraFire Cryptographic Algorithm Library (CAL) Users Guide	02/2017
UG0743: PolarFire FPGA Debugging User Guide	03/2018
UG0714: PolarFire FPGA Programming User Guide	04/2018
UG0725: PolarFire FPGA Device Power-Up and Resets User Guide	04/2018
UG0726: PolarFire FPGA Board Design User Guide	05/2018
UG0753: PolarFire FPGA Security User Guide	02/2018
UG0701: LiteFast IP User Guide	03/2018

Reports

TR0033: PolarFire FPGA JESD204B Interoperability for AD9371 Test Report	12/2017
TR0034: PolarFire FPGA CoreJESD204BRX Interoperability for AD9680	05/2018
TR0035: PolarFire FPGA CoreJESD204BRX and CoreJESD204BTX Interoperability for AD9680 and AD9144 Test Report	12/2017
TR0036: PolarFire FPGA CoreJESD204BRX Interoperability for ADS54J60 Test Report	11/2017
TR0043: PolarFire Neutron Test Results Test Report	06/2018

Register Maps

PolarFire Device Register Map

06/2018

PolarFire Evaluation Kit

PolarFire Evaluation Kit user guides, schematics, and design files are available in the PolarFire Evaluation Kit page.

Demo Guides

Demo guides targeted to the MPF300-EVAL-KIT-ES. User guides, schematics, and design files are available in the MPF300-EVAL-KIT-ES documentation page. In addition, a Power Monitor GUI has also been released that can be used with any of the demo designs.

DG0755: PolarFire FPGA JESD204B Standalone Interface Demo Guide Design Files (RAR, 337 MB)	04/2018
DG0756: PolarFire FPGA PCIe Endpoint and DDR3 Memory Controller Demo Guide Design Files (ZIP, 552 MB)	05/2018
DG0757: PolarFire FPGA 10GBASE-R Ethernet Loopback Demo Guide Design Files (RAR, 685 MB)	04/2018
DG0759: PolarFire FPGA Multi-Rate Transceiver Demo Guide Design Files (RAR, 424 MB)	04/2018
DG0762: PolarFire FPGA DSP FIR Filter Demo Guide Design Files (CoreFIR) (RAR, 325 MB)	04/2018
DG0774: PolarFire FPGA Low Power Demo Guide Design Files (RAR, 485 MB)	06/2018
DG0798: PolarFire FPGA System Services Demo Guide Design Files (RAR, 78 MB)	04/2018
DG0799: PolarFire FPGA 1G Ethernet Loopback Using IOD CDR Demo Guide Design Files (RAR, 115 MB)	12/2017
DG0802: PolarFire FPGA PCIe Root Port Demo Guide Design Files (RAR, 477 MB)	05/2018
DG0783: PolarFire FPGA: High-Speed Data Transfer in 8b10B Mode Using the LiteFast IP Demo Guide Design Files (ZIP, 266 MB)	09/2017

Tutorials

TU0775: PolarFire FPGA: Building a Mi-V Processor Subsystem Tutorial Design Files (ZIP, 223 MB)	05/2018
TU0778: PolarFire FPGA Building a Cortex-M1 Processor Subsystem Tutorial Design Files (ZIP, 11.5 MB)	04/2018
TU0804: PolarFire FPGA Debugging Tutorial Design Files (ZIP, 99.3 MB)	04/2018

Application Notes

AC464: PolarFire FPGA: Implementing Data Security using UserCrypto Processor Application Note Design Files (ZIP, 84 MB)	05/2018
AC462: PolarFire FPGA Package Fanout Application Note Board Breakout Design Files (Schematic Symbols and Layout Files) (ZIP, 7 MB)	11/2017
AC465: Migrating a SoftConsole v5.1 Project to SoftConsole v5.2 Application Note	11/2017
AC466: PolarFire FPGA Auto Update and In-Application Programming Application Note Design Files (ZIP, 204 MB)	04/2018
AC468: PolarFire FPGA Transceiver Decision Feedback Equalization Application Note Design Files (ZIP, 44 MB)	03/2018

PolarFire Splash Kit

PolarFire Splash Kit user guides, schematics, and design files are available on the PolarFire Splash Kit page.

Demo Guides

Demo guides targeted to the MPF300-SPLASH-KIT-ES. User guides, schematics, and design files are available in the MPF300-SPLASH-KIT-ES documentation page. In addition, a Power Monitor GUI has also been released that can be used with any of the demo designs.

DG0796: PolarFire FPGA Splash Kit JESD204B Standalone Interface Demo Guide Design Files (RAR, 247 MB)	04/2018
DG0814: PolarFire FPGA Splash Kit Low Power Demo Guide Design Files (RAR, 485 MB)	06/2018
DG0824: PolarFire FPGA System Services Using Splash Kit Design Files (RAR, 133MB)	04/2018
DG0808: PolarFire FPGA PCIe EndPoint and DDR4 Memory Controller Data Plane Using Splash Kit Demo Guide Design Files (RAR,423MB)	05/2018

Tutorials

TU0827: PolarFire FPGA Debugging Using Splash Kit Tutorial

Design Files (ZIP, 75.8 MB)

04/2018

Application Notes

AC471: PolarFire FPGA Auto Update and In-Application Programming Using Splash Kit Application Note Design Files (ZIP, 232 MB)	04/2018
AC473: PolarFire FPGA: Implementing Data Security using UserCrypto Processor - Splash Kit Application Note Design Files (ZIP, 101MB)	05/2018

Software User Guides

Libero SoC PolarFire software user guides are available in the Libero SoC PolarFire page.

Resources

Quick links to all resources needed to start your first PolarFire design today.

Design Software	Libero SoC PolarFire integrates industry leading synthesis, debug and DSP support from Synopsys, and simulation from Mentor Graphics with power analysis, timing analysis and push button design flow.
Licensing	Libero SoC PolarFire Device Support table details which license supports each device size Request a License, an evaluation license can be used to run designs on any device, programming is not included Free full feature licenses are available for MPF100 devices or a license can be purchased to support larger family members
IP Cores	Search for PolarFire IP cores
Partners	Microsemi's Partners are engaged in development with PolarFire devices or contributed to silicon design, including The Athena Group, Inc., Intrinsic-ID BV, and A2e Technologies
Dev Kits & Boards	PolarFire Evaluation Kit provides a full feature development platform and will be the first kit available PolarFire Splash Kit provides a lower cost alternative to the eval kit and is planned for release in June 2017
Power Analysis	Excel based PolarFire Power Estimator can be used to evaluate power for your design without running the full design flow UG0752: PolarFire FPGA Power Estimator User Guide SmartPower can also provide design specific power analysis for your design implementation within Libero
Programming & Debug	Programming and Debug information PolarFire is supported by FlashPro for in circuit programming and Silicon Sculptor 3 for standalone device programming PolarFire FPGAs also offer a Secured Production Programming Solution (SPPS) SmartDebug is a unique approach to device debug of PolarFire FPGA fabric, memory and transceivers
BSDL Models	Generic BSDL Models for PolarFire devices are available for boundary scan testing Design specific files can also be exported from your design implementation in Libero
IBIS Models	Generic IBIS Models: PolarFire will be available soon for signal integrity simulations. Design specific files can also be exported from your design implementation in Libero.

Seminars

Arrow and Microsemi PolarFire Everest FPGA Workshops - North America

Arrow and Microsemi are hosting a series of hands-on workshops featuring Microsemi's latest PolarFire Mid Range FPGA and Arrow's new low-cost Everest Development Kit.

For dates, location and registrations contact Arrow Electronics

Future and Microsemi PolarFire Avalanche FPGA Seminar Series - North America and Europe

Future Electronics is heating up the market and cooling down the competition with Microsemi’s AVALANCHE development board featuring PolarFire FPGA!

Attend a hands-on workshop on PolarFire in your market!

Future Electronics North America Seminars starting in January 2018! Register here!

Future Electronics EMEA seminars starting February 2018! Register here!

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PolarFire FPGAs

Lowest Power, Cost-Optimized, Mid-Range FPGAs

Overview

Cost-optimized Architecture

Power Optimization

Introducing PolarFire FPGAs

PolarFire Low Power Features

Solving Key Market Issues (Click to Learn More)

PolarFire FPGA Architecture

Product Table

PolarFire Product Family

Smallest Form Factor Solutions

Documentation

White Papers

Datasheet

Packaging

Power Estimation

User Guides

Reports

Register Maps

PolarFire Evaluation Kit

Demo Guides

Tutorials

Application Notes

PolarFire Splash Kit

Demo Guides

Tutorials

Application Notes

Software User Guides

Resources

Quick links to all resources needed to start your first PolarFire design today.

Seminars

Arrow and Microsemi PolarFire Everest FPGA Workshops - North America

Future and Microsemi PolarFire Avalanche FPGA Seminar Series - North America and Europe

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