#PolarFire Core

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Microchip unveils PolarFire Core to cut FPGA costs for power-efficient applications

May 29, 2025 /Semi/ — Microchip Technology has launched the PolarFire® Core family of FPGAs and SoCs, targeting customers seeking cost-effective, low-power programmable logic solutions. By eliminating integrated serial transceivers, the new lineup reduces bill-of-material costs by up to 30%, while preserving the core strengths of PolarFire: power efficiency, security, and reliability. The…

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Securing Embedded Linux Applications with Ubuntu and Ubuntu® Core on PolarFire® SoC FPGAs

 Thursday, January 18, 2024 9:00 AM Pacific Standard Time 45 minutes Mission-critical applications running on embedded platforms require state-of-the-art security design both in hardware and software. The combination of our hardware and Canonical® software is designed with security in mind, from the get-go.  Using Ubuntu® long-term support releases, enterprise and device makers can leverage a…

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Microchip FPGA uses customized PolarFire FPGA and SoC solution protocol stack to accelerate intelligent edge design, reduce development cost and risk

【Lansheng Technology News】Microchip Technology Inc. today announced the addition of nine new technology and application-specific solutions to its growing mid-range FPGA and system-on-chip support products, covering industrial edge, intelligent embedded vision and edge communication.

Previously, Microchip announced in June an industrial edge protocol stack and extensive resources for OPC/UA to help customers switch to PolarFire FPGAs and SoCs.

Tailor-made solution stack – only available for PolarFire FPGAs and SoCs

Unlike alternatives that provide baseline support for overly broad application categories, the PolarFire FPGA Intelligent Edge Solution protocol stack is highly customized for specific technology and vertical market needs and includes detailed intellectual property, reference designs, and example designs. Development kits, application notes, demonstration guides, and more.

Microchip’s new PolarFire FPGA and SoC smart edge solutions and protocol stacks address the following applications:

Intelligent embedded vision:

H.264 compression

HDMI®

Serial digital interface

CoaXpress®

Industrial edge applications:

Motor control

Open Platform Communications/Unified Architecture (OPC/UA)

Edge communications:

Software defined radio

USXGMII

Small form factor pluggable (SFP+) optical module

5G ORAN

About PolarFire® FPGA Series

Microchip's devices lead their class, delivering twice the energy efficiency, military-grade security and the industry's highest reliability. As Microchip continues to increase computing power in smaller, lower-cost industrial, IoT and other edge computing products, the company will further expand product capabilities through the PolarFire 2 FPGA roadmap.

Featuring a real-time, Linux®-based RISC-V microprocessor subsystem, PGAStack" devices are the only SoCs on the market that create new configurable processing capabilities through a hardened RISC-V core complex within a fast FPGA fabric.

This family of FPGA and SoC devices is ideal for creating custom computing within the FPGA fabric, playing an important role in driving the rapid growth of the intelligent edge systems market. Developers can design using Microchip's PolarFire family of products with these products/fpgas-and-plds/fpga-and-soc-design-tools/fpga/libero-software-later-versions?utm_medium=PressRelease&utm_content=FPGA&utm_campaign=FPGAStack" .

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Microchip Adds RISC-V Cores to PolarFire FPGAs

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New top story on Hacker News: Microchip Adds RISC-V Cores to PolarFire FPGAs

New top story on Hacker News: Microchip Adds RISC-V Cores to PolarFire FPGAs

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Implementation Of ARINC 818-2 IP Core On Microsemi PolarFire FPGA

https://koliasa.com/implementation-of-arinc-818-2-ip-core-on-microsemi-polarfire-fpga/ Implementation Of ARINC 818-2 IP Core On Microsemi PolarFire FPGA - https://koliasa.com/implementation-of-arinc-818-2-ip-core-on-microsemi-polarfire-fpga/ Suitable for various high-performance ...

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Andes' RISC-V SoC debuts with AI-ready VPU as Microchip opens access to its PolarFire SoC

Andes’ RISC-V SoC debuts with AI-ready VPU as Microchip opens access to its PolarFire SoC

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Andes unveiled a Linux-ready, RISC-V-based “AndesCore 27-series” CPU core that features a VPU for AI applications. In other RISC-V on Linux news, Microchip opened early access to its FPGA-enabled PolarFire SoC and Hex Five announced MultiZone Security for Linux. In conjunction with the RISC-V Summit in San Jose this week, Andes Technology announced a Linux-focused RISC-V core design that…

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Risc-V day: Microchip adds Risc-V hard I

Risc-V day: Microchip adds Risc-V hard I

Risc-V day: Microchip adds Risc-V hard IP to PolarFire FPGAs – Microchip detailed an FPGA family with a quad core 64bit RISC-V processor alongside the programmable array. Called ‘PolarFire SoC’, the “architecture brings real-time deterministic asymmetric multiprocessing capability to Linux platforms in a multi-core coherent CPU cluster”, according to the firm, which worked with Risc-V specialist…

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FPGA Security Market 2019 Analysis, Opportunities and Growth, Forecast to 2025

Global FPGA security market is expected to surpass a valuation of USD 3,700 million by 2025 up from USD 1,670.3 million in 2017, reflecting a double-digit CAGR. In the years to come, market opportunities are likely to arise from IT & Telecom, consumer electronics, and automotive. Demand for FPGA security has spiraled up on account of the rising deployment of FPGAs across the telecommunication sector for bandwidth expansion and to meet the evolving data speed requirements. FPGAs are viewed as superior alternative too ASICs; this is driving FPGA adoption in smartphones, mobile devices and wearables. However, issues pertaining to security in FPGAs remains a formidable hinderance for the market.

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Global FPGA Market, By Region

Asia-Pacific will spearhead the global FPGA security market during the forecast period. In 2018, the market in Asia-Pacific was valued at USD 658.9 million is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11.10% during the forecast period. Presence of a robust semiconductor industry in the region is a major force driving the market growth in Asia-Pacific. Emergence of China as a major manufacturing hub for electronic products has been a favorable factor for Asia-Pacific FPGA security market. In addition, rapid development of data centers across Asia-Pacific is reflecting favorably on the market.

Companies Covered

Xilinx Inc., Microchip Technology Inc., Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, Texas Instruments Incorporated, Lattice Semiconductor, Intel Corporation, Financial Overview, Quicklogics Corp., and Teledyne Technologies Incorporated.

The FPGA Security Market is highly competitive and is characterized by a large number of vendors operating on domestic, region and global level. To remain competitive, market players are focusing on providing cost-effective components and value-added services.

The report covers the development strategies adopted by the companies between 2015 to 2018.

Key Development

Xilinx has recently partnered with Baidu to develop and edge acceleration computing solution—EdgeBoard focused towards smart video security surveillance, advanced driver assistance systems, and next-generation robots.

Microsemi, a subsidiary of Microchip Technology, collaborated with SiFive to incorporate multi-core coherent RISC-V processors to its PolarFire FPGA family.

In August 2018, Achronix partnered with Mentor, a Siemens business, for its FPGA technology products. This partnership is expected to enable the designers to quickly switch from C++ to FPGA using Mentor's Catapult HLS and Achronix's ACE design tools.

Market Segmentation

By Configuration - Low-End FPGA, Mid-Range FPGA, High-End FPGA

By Node Size - Less Than 28 nm, 28-90 nm and more than 90 nm

By Technology - SRAM, Flash and Antifuse

By Application - FPGA Synthesis Flow (HDL Level IP Theft and Tampering, Synthesis Level IP Theft and Tampering, Bitstream Level IP theft and Tempering), Applied Cryptography (Side Channel Attacks, Fault Injection Attacks and Physical Attacks), Algorithmic Cryptographic Security and others.

Configuration Analysis

The low-end segment was valued at USD 762.6 million in 2018 and is projected to grow at 9.39% CAGR during the forecast period. Low-end FPGAs are specially designed to offer low power consumption, low density, and low complexity per chip. Preference for low-end FPGAs is high owing to their high reconfiguration ability and compatibility with high-performance accelerator. The demand for low-end FPGAs is concentrated in sectors such as military and automotive.

Node Size Analysis

In 2018, the 28-90nm segment was valued at USD 914.4 million and is projected to post a CAGR of 10.61% during the forecast period. The 40 nm, 65-nm, and most recent 45-nm node offer several functional benefits which enable more proficient usage of smaller physical space in semiconductors. They also allow to achieve a higher degree of semiconductor performance.

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Microsemi adds to RISC-V based FPGAs

Microsemi adds to RISC-V based FPGAs

Microchip has added multi-core coherent RISC-V processors to its PolarFire FPGA family, with the intention of brings real-time deterministic asymmetric multiprocessing to Linux platforms. The architecture, developed in collaboration with RISC-V champions SiFive, has a 2Mbyte L2 memory that can be configured as a cache, scratchpad or a direct access memory. “This allows designers to …

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ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Nov. 30, 2017 — Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced the availability of its Libero system-on-chip (SoC) PolarFire version 2.0 comprehensive design software tool suite, used for the development of the company’s lowest power, cost-optimized mid-range PolarFire field programmable gate array (FPGAs) and supporting all PolarFire FPGA family devices and packages.

Microsemi’s Libero SoC PolarFire Design Suite provides a complete design environment for customers working on designs requiring high-speed transceivers and memories with low power consumption. It enables high productivity with its comprehensive, easy to learn, easy to adopt development tools and enables a design launching point for customers with key quick start demonstration designs for rapid evaluation and prototyping. Several full design files for Libero SoC PolarFire targeting the company’s complementary PolarFire Evaluation Kit are also available, including JESD204B Interface, PCI Express (PCIe) Endpoint, 10GBASE-R Ethernet, digital signal processing (DSP) finite impulse response (FIR) filter and multi-rate transceiver demonstration, with additional reference designs planned over the coming months.

“Our Libero SoC PolarFire v2.0 release supports all of the PolarFire product family’s devices and packages, enabling customers to further leverage the high-performance capabilities of our lowest power, cost-optimized mid-range FPGAs for their designs,” said Jim Davis, vice president of software engineering at Microsemi. “Feature enhancements to best-in-class debug tool SmartDebug provide the ability to evaluate transceiver performance while modifying transceiver lane signal integrity parameters on the fly, and to evaluate the channel noise of the transceiver receiver through the eye monitor. In addition, the demonstration mode allows customers to evaluate SmartDebug features without connecting to a hardware board—a capability unique to Microsemi FPGAs.”

The enhanced design suite also includes significant runtime improvement for SmartPower, with a 4x speed up of invocation time and almost instantaneous switching between different views. In addition, Libero SoC PolarFire v2.0 introduces a brand new SmartDesign canvas with higher quality, higher speed of displaying nets and easier design navigation.

While Microsemi’s PolarFire FPGAs are ideal for a wide variety of applications within the communications, industrial and aerospace and defense markets, the new software provides new capabilities for high-speed applications, offering particular suitability for access networks, wireless infrastructure, and the defense and industry 4.0 markets. Application examples include wireline access, network edge, wireless heterogeneous networks, wireless backhaul, smart optical modules, video broadcasting, encryption and root of trust, secure wireless communications, radar and electronic warfare (EW), aircraft networking, actuation and control.

With the release of Libero SoC PolarFire v2.0, Microsemi has added support for PolarFire MPF100, MPF200, MPF300 and MPF500 devices for all package options, enabling customers to design with all members of the PolarFire family. It also adds the MPF300TS-FCG484 (STD) device to Libero Gold License and introduces the MPF100T device supported by the free Libero Silver License.

Microsemi’s PolarFire FPGA devices provide cost-effective bandwidth processing capabilities with the lowest power footprint. They feature 12.7 Gbps transceivers and offer up to 50 percent lower power than competing mid-range FPGAs, and include hardened PCIe controller cores with both endpoints and root port modes available, as well as low power transceivers. The company’s complementary PolarFire Evaluation Kit is a comprehensive platform for evaluating its PolarFire FPGAs which includes a PCIe edge connector with four lanes and a demonstration design. The kit features a high-pin-count (HPC) FPGA mezzanine card (FMC), a single full-duplex lane of surface mount assemblies (SMAs), PCIe x4 fingers, dual Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 and a small form-factor pluggable (SFP) module.

Availability

Microsemi’s Libero SoC PolarFire v2.0 software toolset is now available for download from Microsemi’s website at http://ift.tt/2App8up and its PolarFire FPGA devices are available for engineering sample ordering with standard lead times. For more information, visit http://ift.tt/2AqmapB and http://ift.tt/2lQF6DQ or email sales.support@microsemi.com.

About PolarFire FPGAs

Microsemi’s new cost-optimized PolarFire FPGAs deliver the industry’s lowest power at mid-range densities with exceptional security and reliability. The product family features 12.7 Gbps transceivers and offer up to 50 percent lower power than competing FPGAs. Densities span from 100K to 500K logic elements (LEs) and are ideal for a wide range of applications within wireline access networks and cellular infrastructure, defense and commercial aviation markets, as well as industry 4.0 which includes the industrial automation and internet of things (IoT) markets.

PolarFire FPGAs’ transceivers can support multiple serial protocols, making the products ideal for communications applications with 10Gbps Ethernet, CPRI, JESD204B, Interlaken and PCIe. In addition, the ability to implement serial gigabit Ethernet (SGMII) on GPIO enables numerous 1Gbps Ethernet links to be supported. PolarFire FPGAs also contain the most hardened security intellectual property (IP) to protect customer designs, data and supply chain. The non-volatile PolarFire product family consumes 10 times less static power than competitive devices and features an even lower standby power referred to as Flash*Freeze. For more information, visit http://ift.tt/2lQF6DQ.

About Microsemi

Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for aerospace & defense, communications, data center and industrial markets. Products include high-performance and radiation-hardened analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management products; timing and synchronization devices and precise time solutions, setting the world’s standard for time; voice processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; enterprise storage and communication solutions, security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Ethernet solutions; Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well as custom design capabilities and services. Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California and has approximately 4,800 employees globally. Learn more at www.microsemi.com.

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Microsemi and Athena Announce the TeraFire Hard Cryptographic Microprocessor for PolarFire “S Class” FPGAs, Providing Advanced Security Features

Microsemi and Athena Announce the TeraFire Hard Cryptographic Microprocessor for PolarFire “S Class” FPGAs, Providing Advanced Security Features

Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, and The Athena Group, Inc. (Athena), a leading provider of security, cryptography, anti-tamper and signal processing intellectual property (IP) cores, today announced Athena’s TeraFire® cryptographic microprocessor is included in Microsemi’s new Polar…

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Microchip PolarFire FPGA single-chip encryption design process successfully passed the review of the British National Cyber ​​Security Center

【Lansheng Technology News】Security has now become a top priority for all designs in various vertical markets. Today, there is further evidence for system architects and designers that using Microchip Technology Inc.’s PolarFire FPGAs can effectively ensure the security of communications, industrial, aerospace, defense, nuclear and other systems. The UK government's National Cyber Security Center reviewed PolarFire FPGA devices using a single-chip cryptographic design flow against strict device-level resiliency requirements.

Tim Morin, technical fellow in Microchip's FPGA business unit, said: "NCSC conducted a very rigorous analysis and review. Microchip adopted the PolarFire FPGA design separation method to further enhance device resiliency and functional isolation, benefiting users. This solidifies Microchip's commitment to Commitment to provide a comprehensive security solution. This approach provides the option of single-chip encryption technology in addition to the encryption technology already in the device, which can be used to protect intellectual property, ensure data security and prevent physical tampering. Physical tampering is a problem for individual electronic devices. One of the serious threats to systems, especially intelligent edge systems, that is often overlooked."

PolarFire FPGAs feature Microchip's industry-leading security architecture to protect intellectual property, data security and supply chain security.

● PolarFire FPGA IP protection includes:

o AES 256 encrypted configuration file with HMAC verification based on SHA 256

o Prevent processing from being affected by differential power analysis using technology licensed from Cryptography Research Incorporated

o Public key cryptography core: Elliptic curve cryptography for secure key distribution

o True random number generator

● PolarFire FPGA data security features include:

o Hardened encryption accelerator for end applications

o Obtain CRI license to use CRI patented technology and develop DPA-protected algorithms royalty-free

● PolarFire FPGA supply chain security features reduce the risk of counterfeiting, relabeling and overbuilding, including:

o Silicon biometrics, including physically unclonable functions, uniquely identify and cryptographically verify each device

These devices are powered by Microchip’s Libero® SoC Design Toolkit, which is available for licensing, including a free version, from Microchip’s Procurement and Customer Service website. PolarFire FPGA and SoC development kits and hardware are also available on the Procurement and Customer Service website.

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World's first RISC-V-based FPGA SoC runs Linux

World’s first RISC-V-based FPGA SoC runs Linux

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Microchip’s Microsemi unit unveiled a low power, real-time deterministic “PolarFire SoC” architecture for Linux edge devices that combines its PolarFire FPGA with 4x RISC-V CPU cores supplied by SiFive. At today’s RISC-V Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., Microchip’s Microsemi subsidiary announced a PolarFire SoC architecture developed in collaboration with SiFive. This “fully customizable,…