Microchip FPGAs present a cost-optimized and powerful platform for meeting the following edge computing requirements for intelligent vision systems:
- Power efficiency with two times more performance per watt
- Smaller form-factors as small as 11 × 11 mm
- Exceptional reliability with zero configuration upsets
- Military-grade security with cyber and anti-tamper security
Microchip’s Mi-V Ecosystem
Mi-V, pronounced “my five,” is Microchip’s continuously expanding, comprehensive suite of tools and design resources that have been developed with numerous third parties to support RISC-V designs. The Mi-V ecosystem aims to increase adoption of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and our System on Chip (SoC) FPGA and RISC-V soft CPU portfolio.
The Mi-V ecosystem supports development using their RISC-V SoC FPGAs and soft CPUs.
Intelligent Embedded Vision at the Edge
Microchip’s PolarFire® SoCs and PolarFire® FPGAs integrate camera sensor interfaces like MIPI® and SLVS, an image signal processing unit and transport interfaces like CoaXPress®, HDMI®, 10 GigE vision, SDI and wireless connectivity. They suit embedded vision and deep learning inference applications, and they can seamlessly support and integrate diverse protocols and interfaces with minimal developer effort as part of a total system solution. Microchip’s VectorBlox accelerator SDK for PolarFire FPGAs also includes video, imaging and machine learning IP plus the tools for accelerating designs that require high performance in low power, small form-factors.
PolarFire® FPGA Video and Imaging Kit with MPF300T Device
MPF300-VIDEO-KIT-NS | QUICK START GUIDE
The PolarFire® Video and Imaging Kit offers a high-performance evaluation of 4K image processing and rendering using dual camera sensors as well as numerous display interfaces. The kit is purpose-built for effortless prototyping of popular imaging and video protocols including MIPI CSI-2 TX, MIPI CSI-2 RX, HDMI 1.4 TX, HDMI2.0, DSI, and HD/3G SDI.
PolarFire® RISC V-based SoC FPGA Video Kit
MPFS250-VIDEO-KIT-PP | USER GUIDE
The PolarFire® SoC Video kit is the Industry’s first RISC V SoC FPGA- based, full-featured embedded vision development platform targeting secure, reliable, and power-efficient vision applications at the edge, including Microchip’s VectorBlox accelerator SDK and Neural Network IP, and Industrial IoT and Automation.
PolarFire® SoC FPGA Icicle Kit
MPFS-ICICLE-KIT-ES | QUICK START GUIDE
The PolarFire SoC Icicle kit is a low-cost development platform that enables evaluation of the five-core Linux capable RISC-V microprocessor subsystem, innovative Linux, and real-time execution, low-power capabilities, and the rich set of peripherals of the PolarFire SoC FPGA.
FPGA Daughter Cards
- Equalizer on RX path, Driver and Re-clocker on TX path
- Process and display HD/3G/6G/12G SDI compliant data
- PolarFire MPF100T-1FCSG325I, CoaXPress PHY EQCO125X40
- Transmit 4K MIPI data over CoaXPress
- Quadrate Aquantia PHY
- Process data using 10G MAC
M2S-HELLO-FPGA-KIT | QUICK START GUIDE
The Hello FPGA kit is a low cost, compact-sized, entry-level platform targeted towards end-users with low to medium FPGA knowledge. The kit supports powerful demos in Image Processing, Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and can measure the live FPGA core power consumption while running designs. The kit also allows users to freeze the design while maintaining the i/o state for low power applications, using Flash Freeze mode. The kit features Arduino & Mikrobus connectors for flexibility when it comes to prototyping and expansion of kits allowing for easy adoption in future projects.
The Hello FPGA Kit demonstrates the following features:
- Artificial Intelligence demo: Uses Parallel Processing to do real-time hand-written digit recognition
- Digital Signal Processing demo: Creating FIR/FFT filters
- Power monitor GUI: Shows how fast the instant-on wake-up time is while displaying the power consumption for both operational and Flash*Freeze modes
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FPGA and SoC Product Catalog
Microchip’s FGPAs and SoCs meet demands for low power, security and extensive reliability.