New product kit for IoT and edge communication applications

Mouser now stocks Microchip Technology's PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit. The kit is optimised for rapid development of embedded systems for industrial automation, edge communications, IoT, automotive, smart vision, and many other compute-intensive applications.

The kit is based on the PolarFire MPFS095T SoC FPGA, featuring an embedded quad 64-bit RISC-V core complex and 95,000 high-performance logic elements for powerful computing performance with best-in-class power efficiency and security.

The PolarFire board includes 1GB of DDR4 memory, a microSD card slot, a Gigabit Ethernet port, and additional interfaces with hardware expansion options, including headers for MikroElektronika Click Boards, 40-pin Raspberry Pi HATs and MIPI video, all controllable via I2C and SPI protocols for rapid prototyping.

The kit also includes an onboard FlashPro5 programmer and a preloaded DSPF FIR filter to program, debug, and showcase the PolarFire FPGA's embedded math block capabilities through the USB-to-JTAG channel. Libero SoC design software can be downloaded from Microchip's website, where new users can obtain a free Silver license to get started.