ALISO VIEJO, Calif.,
April 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading
provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power,
security, reliability and performance, today announced its first
cost-optimized, low power, mid-range PolarFire™ field programmable
gate array (FPGA) device is now production-qualified. With
300K logic elements (LEs), the second
largest device in the family targets a variety of applications in
the communications, defense, industrial and aviation markets. The
company also announced full Libero SoC Design Suite support for
PolarFire devices, giving designers the ability to design in any
member of the family.
PolarFire FPGAs have now been adopted by dozens of customers in
key communications, defense and industrial infrastructure market
segments, and early access customers are moving into early
production qualification with the family. These systems have a
substantially lower cost of ownership, as the PolarFire family
enables significantly lower power consumption and an ability to
operate in harsher thermal environments.
"With the first award-winning PolarFire device
production-qualified, current customers can now release their end
products into the market and new customers can start their
PolarFire designs with the assurance they are utilizing an FPGA
family that has gone through a robust qualification regimen,
completing thousands of man hours of testing and validation," said
Suresh Menon, vice president of
engineering at Microsemi. "All other PolarFire family members will
now be rolled out in the forthcoming months and can be designed in
today using Microsemi's comprehensive, easy to learn, easy to adopt
Libero SoC Design Suite, giving designers a true alternative for
mid-range FPGAs."
Apart from the comprehensive Libero Design Suite and SmartDebug
debugging tool suite, Microsemi also offers complete solutions for
1G Ethernet, 10G Ethernet, JESD204B, double data rate (DDR4) memory
interfaces, AXI4 interconnect intellectual property (IP) and many
others found in the company's IP Catalog targeting PolarFire FPGAs
and the PolarFire Evaluation Kit.
According to market research firm Industry ARC, the overall FPGA
market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)
of nearly 6 percent from 2017 to 2023, expanding from $4.79 billion to $6.68
billion during the forecast period, driven by replacement of
Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and other
programmable logic devices (PLDs) with FPGAs. Microsemi's
300K LE MPF300T PolarFire FPGA is
ideal for applications across multiple markets leveraging FPGA
technology, including JESD204B interfaces, 10 gigabit (Gb) Ethernet
solutions, imaging/video, machine learning, PCI Express-based
designs, control processing, encryption and root of trust, secure
wireless communications, aircraft networking, and actuation and
control.
Microsemi's PolarFire FPGA enables customers to forego
purchasing higher end FPGAs to obtain the Serializer/Deserializer
(SerDes) performance needed for their designs while offering lower
power, mid-range capabilities that offer significant advantages
over competing devices in several application areas. The PolarFire
family provides a variety of solutions for mid-range and
low-density FPGAs as well as complex programmable logic devices
(CPLDs).
PolarFire FPGAs also feature a cost-optimized architecture
delivering additional benefits, including:
- Standard complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) 28
nanometer (nm) process technology
- Transceiver performance optimized for 12.7 Gbps, yielding
smaller size and lower power
- The only low cost, mid-range device offering 1.6 Gbps LVDS and
1.6Gbps DDR4 I/O
- High performance security IP, uniquely offering hardened
security IP in a mid-range device
- Mid-range FPGAs in the smallest packages
The device also offers power optimization with features
including:
- 28nm flash, yielding very low static power
- Negligible inrush power
- Low power modes, including Flash*Freeze, which yields
best-in-class standby power
- Integrated hard IP, offering DDR PHY, PCIe end point/root port
and a crypto processor
- Total power (static and dynamic) of up to 50 percent lower
power
Availability
Microsemi's production-qualified PolarFire FPGAs are available for
general ordering now, with all other PolarFire FPGA engineering
samples available for design-in. For more information, visit
https://www.microsemi.com/products/fpga-soc/fpga/polarfire-fpga or
email sales.support@microsemi.com.
About PolarFire FPGAs
Microsemi's new cost-optimized PolarFire FPGAs deliver the
industry's lowest power at mid-range densities with exceptional
security and reliability. The award-winning product family features
12.7 Gbps SerDes transceivers at up to 50 percent lower power than
competing FPGAs. Densities span from 100K to 500K logic
elements (LEs) and are ideal for a wide range of applications
within wireline access networks and mobile infrastructure, defense
and commercial aviation markets, as well as industry 4.0 which
includes the industrial automation and internet of things (IoT)
markets.
PolarFire FPGAs' transceivers can support multiple serial
protocols, making the products ideal for communications
applications with 10Gbps Ethernet, CPRI, JESD204B, Interlaken and
PCIe. In addition, the ability to implement serial gigabit Ethernet
(SGMII) on general purpose input/output (GPIO) enables numerous
1Gbps Ethernet links to be supported. PolarFire FPGAs also contain
the most hardened security IP to protect customer designs, data and
supply chain. The non-volatile PolarFire product family consumes 10
times less static power than competitive devices and features an
even lower standby power referred to as Flash*Freeze. For more
information, visit www.microsemi.com/polarfire.
About Microsemi
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive
portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for aerospace &
defense, communications, data center and industrial markets.
Products include high-performance and radiation-hardened analog
mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power
management products; timing and synchronization devices and precise
time solutions, setting the world's standard for time; voice
processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; enterprise
storage and communication solutions, security technologies and
scalable anti-tamper products; Ethernet solutions;
Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well as custom design
capabilities and services. Microsemi is headquartered in
Aliso Viejo, California and has
approximately 4,800 employees globally. Learn more at
www.microsemi.com.
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