PolarFire SoC

Lowest Power

PolarFire SoC vs Competition SoC FPGAs (CoreMarks / W)

~25kLE SoC FPGAs
	At 1.05W, PolarFire SoC delivers 5.5k CoreMarks while competing SRAM based SoC FPGAs deliver 0 CoreMarks PolarFire SoC consumes up to 45% lower power at max output
~100kLE SoC FPGAs
	At 1.3W, PolarFire SoC delivers 6.5k CoreMarks while competing SRAM based SoC FPGAs deliver 0 CoreMarks PolarFire SoC consumes up to 55% lower power at 8k CoreMarks
~460kLE SoC FPGAs
	PolarFire SoC delivers 8k CoreMarks @ 2.05W while competing SRAM based SoC FPGAs deliver 0 CoreMarks PolarFire SoC consumes up to 65% lower power at 8k CoreMarks

Security

Defense-grade Security

Security starts during silicon manufacturing and continues through system deployment and operations. Microchip’s PolarFire SoC FPGAs represent the industry’s most advanced secure programmable FPGAs.

• Secure Hardware
• Secure wafer-sort and packaging
• Spectre and Meltdown immune CPUs
• Design Security
• DPA-resistant bitstream programming
• Anti-tamper
• DPA-resistant secure boot
• Data Security
• CRI DPA countermeasures pass-through license
• DPA-resistant crypto-coprocessor

RISC-V Physical Memory Protection (PMP)

Security Leadership

Block Diagram

PolarFire SoC is based on the award winning PolarFire FPGA architecture and integrates a versatile, low-power, 64-bit, multi-core RISC-V processor subsystem.

• Linux and Real-Time capable in a deterministic and coherent CPU cluster
• Integrated DDR3/4, LPDDR3/4 controllers and Phy
• Defense-grade Secure boot
• SECDED on all memories

PolarFire SoC delivers industry's lowest power at mid-range densities with exceptional security and reliability.

Real-Time with Linux

Safety Critical, System Control and Security applications use the flexibility that Linux offers and need Real-Time Determinism to control hardware.

Safety Critical systems	AI / ML	Industrial IoT	Robotics	Smart Weapons and UAV

Typical SMP implementations may offer the flexibility of a rich operating systems but are terrible for running real-time systems needing deterministic performance.
SMP on Quad-core Cortex-A class processor	ISR execution times vary significantly

Designing a deterministic, Linux capable SoC requires a multi-dimensional approach needing architectural innovation, a coherent memory subsystem across cores and configurable branch prediction capabilities.
PolarFire SoC features a multi-core Linux capable processor that is coherent with the memory subsystem allowing a versatile mix of deterministic real-time systems and Linux in a single multi-core CPU cluster.

PolarFire SoC enables you to create a fully deterministic real-time system alongside Linux that executes on-time every time.

AMP Implementation on PolarFire SoC	The ISR execution times are deterministic

Product Family

PolarFire SoC offers the Smallest Form Factors

PolarFire SoC FPGAs offer best-in-class form factors at 25k, 95k, 160k and 250k LEs.

Getting Started

Download and Install the Latest Tools

Download relevant documentation

Resources

Errata

Mi-V Ecosystem

		Adacore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, C and C++, helping developers build safe, secure and reliable software that matters.
		Amazon FreeRTOS is open source and extends the FreeRTOS kernel with libraries making it easy to connect to cloud services and edge devices. Amazon FreeRTOS support is now available for RISC-V based MCUs.
		Antmicro’s Renode Simulation platform offers multiple connected virtual device setups within the same environment enabling ease of development for customers without the hassle of C programming.
		ARIES Embedded offers hardware products (modular systems and custom designs), services for IP-development and software development (FreeRTOS, U-Boot, Linux) based on Microsemi's Polarfire FPGA and SoCs.
		Digital Core Technologies offers design services covering the entire Life Cycle of a product. This includes Hardware Designs (High Speed, High-Density Digital, Analog, Power and RF), Embedded Logic Ware and Embedded Software
		DornerWorks specializes in FPGA Design and Engineering, Embedded Software and Hardware Development. Their expertise includes designs for the Aerospace, Medical, Automotive and IoT markets.
		Emcraft is a leading provider of System-on-Module (SoM) solutions. They provide production-ready, self-maintained Linux BSPs and Software distributions for all of their SoM Solutions.
		Emdalo Technologies a software engineering development company specializing in delivering solutions in Embedded Systems, Machine Learning, AI, Information Security and IIoT Applications.
		Enclustra offers highly-integrated FPGA modules (SoM) and FPGA-optimized IP cores. and provides services covering the whole range of FPGA-based system development from high-speed hardware or HDL firmware through to embedded software.
		Express Logic provides comprehensive X-WARE IoT Platform for embedded developers targeting FPGAs. The THREADX RTOS has been ported to the RISC-V Soft CPU on the PolarFire MPF300-EVAL-KIT evaluation board.
		Hex Five Security, Inc. is the creator of MultiZone™ Security, the first trusted execution environment for RISC-V, which provides policy-based hardware-enforced separation for an unlimited number of security domains, with full control over data, code, peripherals and interrupts.
		IAR Embedded Workbench is an integrated development environment for building and debugging embedded applications using C and C++. The toolchain offers leading code quality, size and speed; extensive debug with simulator and hardware debugging support.
		Imperas supports Microsemi's RISC-V based SoC FPGAs with the Mi-V FreeRTOS Extendable Platform Kit (EPK), tools to help in development, porting, debug and test.
		Mentor enables embedded development for a variety of applications including automotive, industrial, smart energy, medical devices, and consumer electronics with their Linux products and Nucleus RTOS.
		Micrium provides high-quality embedded software components in the form of engineer-friendly source code coupled with unsurpassed documentation and customer support.
		Phytec is a leading provider of SoM solutions based on application processors and FPGAs. Phytec also offers services: systems integration, hardware and software design, mechanical design and manufacturing.
		SecureRF provides security solutions for embedded systems and wireless sensor technologies. SecureRF is a CompanionCore partner of Microsemi and offers optimized IP cores for Microsemi FPGAs.
		SiFive builds customized silicon based on the open-source RISC-V ISA. SiFive offers customizable RISC-V CPU Core IP for use in Microsemi FPGAs reducing time-to-market and cost.
		Sundance DSP is a world-wide supplier of high-performance DSP and FPGA processor boards (SoM) and I/O modules for high performance, parallel processing applications such as imaging, radar, sonar, industrial control and military.
		Technolution provides tailor-made solutions such as Fault Tolerant RISC-V soft cores, High speed Interfaces, BSP and Drivers, Real-time Video transport, and High-end Board design.
		Trenz Electronic develops, manufactures, integrates and sells FPGA and SoC modules (SoM) with main focus on application specific HDL and FPGA design, hardware and software development.
		UltraSoC is deeply involved in defining the debug architecture for RISC-V standards. UltraSoC is the first company to offer a RISC-V processor trace solution, supporting both open source and commercial processors.
		WindRiver VxWorks is the world's leading real-time operating system. WindRiver extends VxWorks support to PolarFire SoC.
		wolfSSL provides Open Source, lightweight and embedded security solutions with an emphasis on speed, size, portability, features, and standards compliance. Their products include wolfSSL, wolfCrypt, yaSSL and wolfSSH.
		The Zephyr Project is an open source collaborative effort to build a small, scalable RTOS. Zephyr OS has been ported on the Mi-V RISC-V Soft CPU deployed on the IGLOO2 FPGA on the M2GL-EVAL-KIT.