1 Designing the Board

The PolarFire SoC family offers the industry's first RISC-V based SoC FPGAs. The PolarFire SoC family combines a powerful 64-bit 5x core RISC-V Microprocessor Subsystem (MSS) with the FPGA fabric in a single device. Packed with this powerful combination, PolarFire SoC devices offer the scalable features of FPGAs and high-performance of ASICs like DDR3/DDR4, 12.7G Transceiver, PCIe Gen2 and HSIO/GPIO, and a highly configurable MSS.

Subsequent sections discuss the following:

• Power Supplies
• I/O Glitch
• User I/O
• Clocks
• Reset
• DDR
• Device Programming
• Special Pins
• Transceiver
• AC and DC Coupling
• Brownout Detection