6 References

The following table lists the documents you can refer for further information:

Table 6-1. Documentation Resources
TitleLink
Discovery Kit Product Page

For the Discovery Kit product page, see:

www.Microchip.com/DiscoveryKit

Application Note

For more information on how to implement basic PolarFire® SoC FPGA designs leveraging the Libero® SoC, see:

AN5282: PolarFire SoC Design Flow Application Note

Hardware Design & Specifications

For a hardware user guide for the Discovery Kit, see:

PolarFire SoC FPGA Discovery Kit Hardware User Guide

For Discovery Kit schematics, see:

PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit Schematics

For the board design files for the Discovery Kit, see:

PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit Board File

Embedded Software UG 

A user guide on how to use the Discovery Kit for embedded software development, see:

Discovery Kit Embedded Software User Guide

RISC-V Microprocessor Sub-System

For information on the processor subsystem in PolarFire SoC, see:

PolarFire SoC MSS Technical Reference Manual

Microchip Technology FPGA & SOC Product Pages

For information on Microchip FPGAs, see:

FPGA Project Pages

Libero SoC Design Suite Software

For information on Microchip FPGA design tools, see:

www.microchip.com/libero

Software Download and License InstallationFor information on how to obtain and set up tool licenses, see: https://coredocs.s3.amazonaws.com/Libero/2023_1/Tool/libero_download_license_quickstart.pdf
Mi-V RISC-V Ecosystem

For information on the Microchip RISC-V partner ecosystem, see:

www.microchip.com/mi-v

Discovery Kit Reference Design Generation Tcl Scripts

For Tcl scripts to generate sample designs for the Discovery Kit, see:

https://github.com/polarfire-soc/polarfire-soc-discovery-kit-reference-design/releases/tag/2024.04

Embedded Software – Bare Metal Development

For bare metal embedded software drivers and examples for the Discovery Kit, see:

www.github.com/polarfire-soc/polarfire-soc-bare-metal-examples 

PolarFire SoC Yocto BSP

For a Yocto Linux build system supporting the Discovery Kit, see:

https://github.com/polarfire-soc/meta-polarfire-soc-yocto-bsp

Knowledge Base Articles

For PolarFire SoC Knowledge based articles, see:

https://microchip.my.site.com/s/article/KB-of-PFSoC-Knowledge-Base-articles