Solid State Supplies is now stocking PolarFire FPGAs from Microsemi Corporation. PolarFire is the industry’s lowest power cost optimized FPGA. It offers a significant reduction in power over equivalent SRAM FPGAs while addressing specific market needs.
The architecture and process optimized PolarFire FPGA family offers between 100-500k Logic Elements (LEs).
Meanwhile, the high performance 12.7Gbps transceivers deliver small physical size and requires around 50% less power than competing mid-range FPGAs.
Additionally, PolarFire’s 28nm non-volatile CMOS process ensures that static power requirements are about 1/10 of those found in competing devices.
Beyond this, a low power Flash*Freeze mode yields standby power.
PolarFire offers up to 33Mbits of RAM, and up to 1480 18×18 multiply accumulate blocks with hardened pre-adders.
As well as, integrated dual PCIe, high speed I/O (HSIO). Which supports 1,600Mbps DDR4 and general purpose I/O for serial gigabit Ethernet.
In defence applications, PolarFire provides high bandwidth radio and image signal processing as well as delivering anti-tamper and data security capabilities.
This makes them suitable for secure embedded systems, secure communications, guidance, radar, aircraft data networking, and avionics.
Communication networks
Today’s communication networks have to deliver terabytes of high value content.
PolarFire FPGAs facilitate this through cost effective bandwidth processing capabilities for wireless access.
They also facilitate wireless backhaul and smart optical modules and video broadcast.
In smart factories, PolarFire offers Industry 4.0 designers a small physical footprint for an FPGA that has numerous 3.3v I/Os and the necessary packet-based interfaces.
Essential to being incorporated in the network edge of the IoT and other security-conscious applications.
Microsemi’s FPGAs are what the company claims to be the industry’s most advanced secure programmable FPGAs.
The built in Athena crypto graphic processor can implement numerous encryption/decryption protocols and it features DPA countermeasures.
Once the cryptographic processor is configured, it requires no additional FPGA resources.
Implementing true data security communications makes this device suitable for Root of Trust.
Designers adopting the PolarFire FPGAs will find them easy to use due to the comprehensive, easy-to-learn and easy-to-adopt Libero SoC design suite and the in-built SmartDebug features.
A high performance evaluation kit for full development and testing is also available.
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