3.2 SmartFusion Ecosystem

The Microchip SoC Products Group has a long history of supplying comprehensive FPGA development tools and recognizes the benefit of partnering with industry leaders to deliver the optimum usability and productivity to customers. Taking the same approach with processor development, Microchip has partnered with key industry leaders in the microcontroller space to provide the robust SmartFusion ecosystem.

Microchip is partnering with Keil and IAR to provide Software IDE support to SmartFusion system designers. The result is a robust solution that can be easily adopted by developers who are already doing embedded design. The learning path is straightforward for FPGA designers.

Support for the SoC Products Group device and ecosystem resources is represented in the following figure.

The preceding figure shows the SmartFusion stack with examples of drivers, RTOS, and middleware from Microchip and partners. By leveraging the SmartFusion stack, designers can decide at which level to add their own customization to their design, thus speeding time to market and reducing overhead in the design.