1 Designing the Board

PolarFire FPGAs are Flash-based FPGAs that support various high-speed memory interfaces such as DDR3/DDR4, lowest power 12.7 Gbps transceiver (XCVR), built-in low-power dual PCIe Gen2, and fabric I/O such as high-speed I/O (HSIO) and general-purpose I/O (GPIO).

Subsequent sections discuss the following topics:

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