Power-Efficient Mid-Range FPGAs and SoCs With the Highest Reliability and Best-in-Class Security
Most Power-Efficient FPGAs
Up to 50% Lower Power
Exceptional Reliability
Zero Configuration Upsets
Military-Grade Security
Best Cyber and Anti-Tamper Security
Double Your Power Efficiency
The PolarFire FPGA and PolarFire SoC families already deliver the industry’s best thermal and power efficiency in the mid-range segment. Optimized for deploying systems with high-compute performance in small form factors, the families have reduced the size and weight of power-constrained systems in applications including industrial imaging, robotics, AI-enabled medical systems and smart defense and aerospace systems.
The PolarFire 2 FPGA family will go even further up the performance and power efficiency curve and add new RISC-V-based high-performance compute elements, adding 15× more compute capability to our roadmap.
The PolarFire 2 FPGA family also includes a design tool set that takes a new approach to system development, unlocking the full potential of these FPGAs and SoC FPGAs by eliminating the need for smart algorithm developers to understand the intricacies of the underlying FPGA hardware.
Microchip's PolarFire® FPGA Ecosystem
The video provides an overview of a typical FPGA design cycle and outlines all key components involved. It describes Microchip’s extensive ecosystem portfolio for PolarFire® SoC/PolarFire FPGAs, ranging from software to design services, aimed at easing design cycles times at every stage.
SmartHLS Tool Suite Develops C++ Algorithms for PolarFire® FPGAs
This video will run a Sobel Filter demo design to run through the SmartHLS design flow. This is a high level demonstration and other videos will take a deeper dive into individual tools available in this design suite.
FPGA Design Services
Microchip offers a broad spectrum of FPGA design services ranging from digital designs and firmware solutions, to technology migration and customized solutions. We also have expert services tailored to key vertical and horizontal solutions for machine learning, Smart Embedded vision, high-speed communications, and motor control. Reduce risks, optimize costs and FastTrack your FPGA design today.
VectorBlox™ Accelerator Software Development Kit and Neural Network IP for PolarFire® FPGAs
Microchip’s VectorBlox Accelerator Software Development Kit (SDK) helps developers take advantage of Microchip’s PolarFire® FPGAs for creating low-power, flexible overlay-based neural network applications without learning an FPGA tool flow. FPGAs are ideal for edge AI applications, such as inferencing in power-constrained compute environments, because they can perform more giga operations per second (GOPS) with greater power efficiency than a central processing unit (CPU) or graphics processing unit (GPU), but they require specialized hardware design skills. Microchip’s VectorBlox Accelerator SDK is designed to enable developers to code in C/C++ and program power-efficient neural networks without prior FPGA design experience.
PolarFire® SoC Icicle Kit
Microchip introduces the development kit for the industry’s first RISC-V based SoC FPGA, the PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit. The Icicle Kit is centered around a 250k Logic Element (LE) PolarFire SoC FPGA device and includes a PCIe® root port, mikroBUS™ expansion, dual Gigabit Ethernet, USB-OTG, CAN bus, Raspberry Pi® header, JTAG and SD Card interfaces, which allow developers a full-featured platform for development. The board is supported by Microchip’s fully designed, validated and tested power management and clocking devices, an Ethernet PHY (VSC8662XIC), USB controller (USB3340-EZK-TR) and current sensors (PAC1934T-I/JQ).
Coffee Break - S4E6 - Low Power the Right Way with PolarFire® FPGAs
Our award-winning PolarFire® FPGAs deliver the industry’s lowest power at mid-range densities with exceptional security and reliability.
AEC-Q100 Qualified and Defense-Grade PolarFire® FPGAs
Antifuse FPGAs
- Axcelerator FPGAs
- eX FPGAs
- MX FPGAs
- SX-A FPGAs
FPGA Configuration Memory
- Configure SRAM FPGAs from Xilinx® and Intel® (Altera)
- 256 KB up to 16 MB
- Small form factor packages such as LAP
- Two-wire serial bus interface for programming
- Configuration programming software
SPLDs/CPLDs
- ATF15xx CPLD family for 5V and 3.3V I/O expansion up to 128 macrocells
- Low-cost, small form-factor 22V10 and 16V8 PLDs for glue logic
- Military PLDs dual-marked with SMD drawing, compliant to MIL-DSCC Class B flow
AT40Kxx Coprocessor Series FPGAs
- Up to 40K gates for 5V and 3.3V applications with cache logic
- Available in die form for military applications
PLD Design Resources
- ATF15xxDK3-U CPLD Development Kit
- ProChip Designer software suite with Precision RTL Synthesis tool
- WinCUPL design system for SPLDs
- ISP and conversion utilities
Powering FPGAs
Find out how you can use our power management solutions to reduce the total footprint size of your FPGA-based design, maximize power density and save valuable PCB space.
Clocking FPGAs
Create flexible and powerful FPGA-based systems using our crystal, MEMS oscillator and multiple-output clock generator FPGA clocking solutions.