The Industry’s first SoC FPGA development kit based on the RISC-V is now available

To meet the need for affordable, standardized development platform that embeds RISC-V technology and leverages the diverse RISC-V ecosystem, Microchip now offers the industry’s first RISC-V-based System-on-Chip (SoC) Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) development kit for PolarFire® SoC FPGA. Microchip’s Icicle Development Kit for PolarFire (SoC) FPGAs brings together numerous Mi-V partners to accelerate customer design deployment and commercial adoption across a variety of industries.

Designers who want to deploy a programmable RISC-V-based SOC FPGA are now able to start development and evaluate the broad network of RISC-V ecosystem products such as Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS), debuggers, compilers, System On Modules (SOMs) and security solutions. The Mi-V RISC-V Partner Ecosystem is a continuously expanding, comprehensive suite of tools and design resources developed by Microchip and numerous third parties to fully support RISC-V designs.

Microchip’s Icicle Kit for PolarFire SoC and Mi-V ecosystem enables PolarFire SoC FPGAs with:

RISC-V processor complex from SiFive and embedded trace macro from UltraSoC
Development tools from Adacore, Green Hills Software, Mentor Graphics and Wind River
Commercial RTOS solutions such as Nucleus and VxWorks that complement Microchip’s Linux® and bare-metal solutions
Middleware solutions from DornerWorks, Hex Five, Veridify Security and wolfSSL
SOM and design services from organizations such as Antmicro, ARIES Embedded, Digital Core Technologies, Emdalo Technologies, Sundance DSP, and Trenz Electronic

The Industry’s first SoC FPGA development kit based on the RISC-V is now available

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