PolarFire devices® double their power efficiency, offer military-grade security and the highest reliability, all powered by future PolarFire 2 FPGAs
Mid-range FPGAs and SoC (System-on-Chip) FPGAs have played a critical role in moving workloads from computers to the edge of the network. Microchip Technology has driven this transition with its award-winning FPGAs, as well as delivering the first RISC-V-based FPGAs that are twice the power efficiency of competitive mid-range FPGAs and incorporate the best in design, operating system, and ecosystem. of solutions. The company will present its solutions at RISC-V Summit 2022, its PolarFire 2 FPGA silicon platform and RISC-V-based processor subsystem, as well as its future software suite. It will also unveil its HPSC processor
(High-Performance Spaceflight Computing) based on RISC-V that is being developed for NASA, the aerospace and defense sector.
“Microchip was the first to offer FPGAs for power-efficient distributed computing and the first to mass-produce FPGA SoCs compatible with the ISA RISC-V open architecture,” said Shakeel Peera, vice president of marketing, Microchip business unit. Microchip's FPGAs. “At this year's event we are especially excited to announce that our PolarFire SoC family is now production-ready, as well as the ecosystem of vendors and solutions for today's consumer-sensitive distributed computing systems. We will also give a preview of our plans to multiply our computing capacity by 15 in the future.”
The PolarFire FPGA and PolarFire SoC families already offer the best thermal and power efficiency in the mid-range segment. Optimized for systems with high computing performance in small form factors, these families have reduced the size and weight of space-constrained systems in applications such as industrial imaging, robotics, AI-based medical systems, and intelligent systems. defense and aerospace. The PolarFire 2 family will go a step further in performance and efficiency, as well as add new elements of high-performance computing based on RISC-V.
It also includes a design tool that is a first in system development and fully exploits the potential of these FPGAs and FPGA SoCs by eliminating the need for smart algorithm developers to understand FPGA hardware in detail.
Microchip will also unveil its Mi-V ecosystem of solutions for the development of RISC-V-based solution stacks. It provides greater than 90% coverage for real-time and open source operating systems and includes other software, middleware, and firmware products from Microchip and its Mi-V ecosystem partners.
RISC-V Summit attendees can view Microchip's PolarFire Family and Mi-V Ecosystem, a sneak peek at the PolarFire 2 family and its design tools, as well as HPSC products, on December 13-14, 2022 at stand PG5, Pavilion 2, of the San Jose McEnery Convention Center (San Jose, California). You will also be able to learn more about Microchip in the following presentations at the conference:
- “RISC-V Spotlight: Microchip's RISC-V Journey to Deliver Innovation from Edge Compute to the Edge of the Solar System,” Bruce Weyer, Corporate Vice President, FPGA, Microchip, December 13 in Hall 3 from 11:00 a.m. to 11:10 a.m.
- “RISC-V Enabling High Performance Spaceflight Computing,” December 14 in Hall 3 from 9:40 am to 9:55 am
