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We offer an extensive range of FPGA-based evaluation boards, development kits, add-on daughter cards and programming and debug hardware for effortless evaluation of the capabilities and features of all our FPGA families and to enable quick prototyping of products and applications. We also provide easily accessible demonstration guides, application notes and sample designs to accelerate your time to market.

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RT PolarFire® Development Kit

The RT PolarFire Development Kit is a platform for developing and evaluating designs that use our RT PolarFire FPGAs. Take advantage of high-speed serial connectivity and bus interfaces to evaluate your control, DSP, AI/ML and image processing applications.

PolarFire® SoC Video Kit

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 the VectorBlox™ Accelerator SDK and neural network IP, Industrial IoT (IIoT) and automation.

PolarFire® SoC Icicle Kit

This low-cost development platform is an excellent solution for evaluating the five-core RISC-V microprocessor subsystem with its innovative Linux® OS support, real-time execution and low-power capabilities, along the rich set of peripherals available on the PolarFire SoC FPGA. 

PolarFire SoC and PolarFire Kits

PolarFire FPGAs deliver the industry’s lowest power in mid-range densities, with defense-grade security and exceptional reliability. The product family spans from 100K to 500K logic elements and features 12.7 Gbps transceivers, robust DSP and high-speed memory resources. PolarFire FPGAs are excellent choices for wireline access networks and cellular infrastructure, defense and commercial aviation, industrial automation and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. 

PolarFire FPGA and PolarFire SoC Kits


PolarFire® SoC Video Kit

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, the VectorBlox™ Accelerator SDK and neural network IP, Industrial IoT (IIoT) and automation.

PolarFire® Video and Imaging Kit

Evaluate 4K image processing and rendering using dual camera sensors, numerous display interfaces and popular imaging and video protocols including MIPI CSI-2 TX, MIPI CSI-2 RX, HDMI 1.4 TX, HDMI 2.0, DSI and HD/3G SDI.

PolarFire® Evaluation Kit

 

This high-performance evaluation kit is well suited for high-speed transceiver evaluation, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE® 1588, JESD204B, SyncE, CPRI and more.

PolarFire® Splash Kit

This kit enables general-purpose evaluation and development  for the PolarFire FPGA. The kit includes Gigabit Ethernet RJ45, PCIe®, USB and LPC FMC connectors and a PolarFire 300K LE FPGA with onboard DDR4 and SPI Flash memory. 

PolarFire® SoC Icicle Kit

This low-cost development platform is an excellent solution for evaluating the five-core RISC-V microprocessor subsystem with its innovative Linux® OS support, real-time execution and low-power capabilities, along the rich set of peripherals available on the PolarFire SoC FPGA. 

SDI FMC Daughter Card

This FMC daughter card is a hardware evaluation platform for evaluating and testing the Serial Digital Interface (SDI) IP.  

USXGMII FMC Daughter Card

This FMC daughter card is a hardware evaluation platform for evaluating and testing the quadrate PHY IP.  

CoaXPress® FMC Daughter Card

This FMC daughter card is a hardware evaluation platform for evaluating and testing the 12.5 Gbps CoaXPress protocol.

PCIe® Root Port Adapter

The PCIe root port adapter is a hardware evaluation platform for evaluating and testing PolarFire® FPGA PCIe root port capabilities, like the enumeration of an endpoint device and, low-speed and high-speed data transfers.

Radiation-Tolerant FPGA Kits


Our development kits for our radiation-tolerant, high-density, high-performance FPGAs provide an evaluation and development platform for data transmission, serial connectivity, bus interface and high-speed applications used in space designs. 

RT PolarFire® Development Kit

The RT PolarFire Development Kit is a platform for developing and evaluating designs that use our RT PolarFire FPGAs. Take advantage of high-speed serial connectivity and bus interfaces to evaluate your control, DSP, AI/ML and image processing applications.

RTG4™ FPGA Development Kits

The RTG4 FPGA Development Kit provides an evaluation and development platform for space applications such as data transmission, serial connectivity, bus interface and high-speed designs using RTG4 radiation-tolerant, high-density and high-performance FPGAs.

Programmers and Adapters


Our programming and debug solutions provide flexible options based on a product’s lifecycle and system requirements. Debug tools complement design simulations and allow verification and troubleshooting at the hardware level. We provide four different kinds of hardware programming options: FlashPro device programming, mass programming, stand-alone programming and In-House Programming (IHP).

FlashPro hardware programs Microchip FPGAs using In-System Programming (ISP). Programming is supported via JTAG and SPI. You will also need Libero® SoC Design Suite, FlashPro Express and SmartDebug, which are offered in  Windows® and Linux® versions.

FlashPro6

FlashPro6 supports all devices in the PolarFire®, RT PolarFire®, PolarFire® SoC, SmartFusion® 2, IGLOO® 2, and RTG4™ FPGA families. FlashPro6 offers exceptionally high performance through USB 3.0 that supports Serial Peripheral Interconnect (SPI) client and JTAG interfaces.

The minimum requirements to run FlashPro6 on Windows® and Linux® are Libero® SoC Design Suite, FlashPro Express and SmartDebug version 12.2 or later.

FlashPro5

FlashPro5 supports all devices in the PolarFire, RT PolarFire, PolarFire SoC, SmartFusion 2, IGLOO 2, RTG4, SmartFusion, Fusion, IGLOO, ProASIC® 3 and RT ProASIC 3 FPGA families. FlashPro5 offers high performance through USB 2.0 that supports Serial Peripheral Interconnect (SPI) and JTAG interfaces.

The minimum requirements to run FlashPro5 on Windows and Linux are Libero SoC Design Suite, FlashPro, FlashPro Express and SmartDebug version 11.4 or later.

FlashPro4

FlashPro4 supports all devices in the PolarFire SoC, PolarFire, SmartFusion 2, IGLOO 2, RTG4, IGLOO, ProASIC 3, RT ProASIC 3, SmartFusion and Fusion FPGA families. FlashPro4 offers high performance using USB 2.0.

The minimum requirements to run FlashPro4 on Windows are Libero IDE and FlashPro v8.6 or later or all versions of Libero SoC, FlashPro Express v12.0 or later and SmartDebug v11.0 or later.

ProASIC Plus® FPGA Power Module

When combined with FlashPro 4 or FlashPro 5, the Prosaic Plus FPGA power module (APA-POWER-MODULE) is a programming solution for ProASIC Plus FPGA devices. Supported by the FlashPro programming tool available as part of programming and debug v11.9 SP6A software, this hardware replaces the FlashPro_Lite programmer.

FlashPro_Lite

FlashPro_Lite is used exclusively with the ProASIC Plus® family. FlashPro_Lite provides all required programming voltages.

The programming connection to the target board is a 26-pin SAMTEC micro header on the target board. A replaceable programming cable is connected to FlashPro_Lite. FlashPro_Lite is conveniently powered by the target board.

Silicon Sculptor 4

Silicon Sculptor 4 CE-compliant production device programmer works alongside Silicon Sculptor adapter modules to program the FPGA devices. It concurrently programs large FPGA parts without performance degradation.

Silicon Sculptor 4 supports SmartFusion® 2, IGLOO® 2, IGLOO®, Fusion, SmartFusion®, ProASIC® 3, Axcelerator, RTAX-S, SX-A and RTSX-S FPGAs.

Silicon Sculptor Adapter Module

Silicon Sculptor adapter modules are package specific. These adapters work with Silicon Sculptor 4 to program FPGA devices.

These adapter modules depend on the product family but are independent of gate count. 

ChipPro stand-alone programmers can quickly and easily program PolarFire®, SmartFusion® 2 and IGLOO® 2 devices.

ChipPro Programmer Baseboard

The ChipPro programmer baseboard (CP-PROG-BASE) works with CPSOM Systems-on-Modules (SoMs) that correspond to each package size.

ChipPro requires FlashPro 6 in conjunction with Libero® SoC Design Suite, FlashPro Express and SmartDebug software.

The ChipPro programmer baseboard supports PolarFire, SmartFusion 2, IGLOO 2 and RTG4™ FPGAs.

CPSOM-MPF100T-FCSG325 

The CPSOM-MPF100T-1FCSG325 is an SoM adapter card that plugs into the ChipPro programmer baseboard (CP-PROG-BASE).

It supports manufacturing device programming for the PolarFire MPF100 device in the FCSG325 package.

CPSOM-MPF200T-FCSG536

The CPSOM-MPF200T-1FCSG536 is an SoM adapter card that plugs into the ChipPro programmer baseboard (CP-PROG-BASE).

It supports manufacturing device programming for the PolarFire MPF200 device in the FCSG536 package. 

CPSOM-MPF300T-1FCG484 

The CPSOM-MPF300T-1FCG484 is an SoM adapter card that plugs into the ChipPro programmer baseboard (CP-PROG-BASE).

It supports manufacturing device programming for the PolarFire MPF200 device in the FCG484 package.

In-House Programming

We offer high-volume programming for all our FPGA devices and package types including high-reliability devices and commercial parts.

Other FPGA Hardware


SmartFusion® 2 and IGLOO® 2 FPGA Development Kits


SmartFusion® 2 Security Evaluation Kit

Develop secure embedded systems with best-in-class solutions for design security and data security. This kit provides a cost-effective platform for developing cost-optimized SoC FPGA designs.

IGLOO® 2 Evaluation Kit

This kit offers best-in-class feature integration coupled with the lowest power consumption, exceptional reliability and proven security. It serves as a platform to develop transceiver I/O-based FPGA designs to build PCI Express® and Gigabit Ethernet-based systems.

SmartFusion® 2 Advanced Development Kit

The SmartFusion 2 Advanced Development Kit offers a full-featured 150K LE SmartFusion 2 (SoC) FPGA. 

SmartFusion® 2 Dual-Axis Motor Control Starter Kit

We offer an easy-to-use hardware platform to implement IPs easily.

Hello FPGA Kit

This low-cost, compact-sized, entry-level platform is targeted towards end users with low to medium FPGA knowledge. It features Arduino and mikroBUS™ connectors for flexibility and scalability. 

Older-Generation FPGA Kits


ProASIC® 3 Starter Kit

This is a comprehensive development kit with a socketed board for evaluating all ProASIC 3 FPGAs available in a PQ208 package.

SmartFusion® Evaluation Kit

This kit offers a simple, low-cost way to try the world's only FPGA with a hard Arm® Cortex®-M3 core and programmable analog.

IGLOO® Nano Starter Kit

This simple and low-cost starter kit enables you to quickly evaluate and prototype your IGLOO FPGA design.

SmartFusion®
Development Kit

This full-featured development kit enables you to evaluate the world's only FPGA with a hard Arm® Cortex®-M3 core and programmable analog. The device contains on-chip Flash and SRAM memory. Off-chip memory is also available on the board. The board can communicate via Ethernet and HyperTerminal. 

Arm® Cortex®-M1 Enabled IGLOO® Development Kit

This kit offers a comprehensive platform so you can quickly evaluate and prototype your design based on Arm Cortex-M1 core-enabled IGLOO devices. 

Arm® Cortex®-M1 Enabled ProASIC® 3L Development Kit

This kit provides you with a complete solution for quickly evaluating and prototyping your design based on Arm Cortex-M1 core-enabled ProASIC 3L devices.

Mixed-Signal Daughter Card

This daughter card is designed for connection to the mixed- signal header on the SmartFusion Evaluation Kit (A2F-EVAL-KIT-2) or SmartFusion® Development Kit (A2F500-DEV-KIT-2).

Digital Mixed-Signal Power Manager (DMPM) Daughter Card Kit

This daughter card can be used to evaluate the functionality of our power management solutions. It supports up to 64 channels, mixed analog and digital Point of Load (POL) control, PMBus® support for digital POLs, and margining and trimming for analog POLs.

Fusion Advanced Development Kit

The Fusion Advanced Development Kit is fully RoHS-compliant and provides an excellent platform for developing microprocessor applications and other system management applications.

IP Hardware


Core1553 Development Kit

Evaluate the functionality of Core1553BRM IP without having to create a complete MIL-STD-1553B-compliant system. Once programmed, the development board serves as a self-contained 1553 bus evaluation system.

Third-Party Kits


Learn more about the following third-party kits.