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PolarFire® SoC Discovery Kit

Microchip's PolarFire system on chip (SoC) Discovery Kit has a powerful hardware platform for RISC-V applications and FPGA logic testing

Image of Microchip's PolarFire® SoC Discovery KitMicrochip's open-source development kit includes a quad-core, 64-bit CPU cluster based on the RISC-V application-class processor. It supports Linux® and real-time applications and features a rich set of peripherals along with 95K low-power, high-performance FPGA logic elements. The kit is designed for rapid application testing on an easy-to-use hardware development platform. It provides a MikroBUS™ expansion header for Click boards™, a 40-pin Raspberry Pi™ connector, and a MIPI® video connector. The expansion boards can be controlled using protocols like I2C and SPI. The kit offers 1 GB of DDR4 memory and a microSD® card slot for booting Linux. Communication interfaces include a Gigabit Ethernet connector and three UART connections via the USB Type-C® connector. An on-board FlashPro5 programmer facilitates programming and debugging of the PolarFire FPGA through the USB-to-JTAG channel.

Reference Design

Linux

  • Linux support is available for the PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit. The out-of-the-box FIR demo will need to be reprogrammed to support Linux; full details are available in the Discovery Kit User Guide on GitHub
Features
  • PolarFire SoC FPGA with 95K LEs (MPFS095T-1FCSG325E )
  • Four 64-bit RISC-V cores
  • One GB main memory
  • One Gigabit Ethernet
  • Three UART
  • One microSD interface
  • Form factor: 4.1'' x 3.3''

PolarFire® SoC Discovery Kit

ImageManufacturer Part NumberDescriptionAvailable QuantityPriceView Details
POLARFIRE SOC DISCOVERY KITMPFS-DISCO-KITPOLARFIRE SOC DISCOVERY KIT193 - Immediate$531.83View Details

PolarFire® SoCs

ImageManufacturer Part NumberDescriptionAvailable QuantityPriceView Details
IC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGAMPFS250T-FCVG484IIC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGA61 - Immediate$1,336.01View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGAMPFS250T-1FCVG484IIC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGA0 - Immediate$1,457.47View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGAMPFS250T-FCVG484EIC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGA30 - Immediate$1,214.51View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGAMPFS250T-1FCVG484EIC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGA76 - Immediate$1,335.97View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGAMPFS250T-FCSG536EIC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGA41 - Immediate$1,270.04View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGAMPFS250TL-FCVG484EIC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGA84 - Immediate$1,457.43View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGAMPFS250T-FCSG536IIC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGA41 - Immediate$1,397.08View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGAMPFS250T-1FCSG536EIC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGA35 - Immediate$1,397.12View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGAMPFS250T-1FCSG536IIC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGA0 - Immediate$1,524.03View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGAMPFS250TS-FCVG484IIC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGA64 - Immediate$1,578.97View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGAMPFS250TL-FCSG536IIC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGA21 - Immediate$1,651.06View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGAMPFS250TS-1FCVG484IIC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGA31 - Immediate$1,700.44View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 1152FCBGAMPFS250TS-FCG1152IIC SOC RISC-V 1152FCBGA14 - Immediate$2,025.60View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGAMPFS250TS-1FCSG536IIC SOC RISC-V 536LFBGA2 - Immediate$1,778.05View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 1152FCBGAMPFS250TLS-FCG1152IIC SOC RISC-V 1152FCBGA26 - Immediate$2,181.43View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 1152FCBGAMPFS250T-FCG1152IIC SOC RISC-V 1152FCBGA9 - Immediate$1,713.94View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGAMPFS025T-FCVG484EIC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGA5 - Immediate$233.29View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 325BGAMPFS025T-FCSG325EIC SOC RISC-V 325BGA11 - Immediate$215.87View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGAMPFS025T-FCVG484IIC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGA1 - Immediate$256.67View Details
IC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGAMPFS025T-1FCVG484EIC SOC RISC-V 484FCBGA9 - Immediate$256.67View Details
Published: 2024-08-01

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