【FAQ】A brief discussion on Microchip's FPGA products and intelligent embedded vision solutions

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Live Topic: A Brief Discussion on Microchip's FPGA Products and Smart Embedded Vision Solutions

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As computing loads shift to edge devices, Microchip's FPGA products have 30-50% lower total power consumption than similar mid-density FPGAs, including 5-10 times lower static power consumption, making them ideal for a range of emerging computing-intensive edge devices (including those deployed in heat and power-constrained environments).
Microchip's FPGA intelligent embedded vision solutions cover the entire ecosystem of video, image and machine learning IP and tools, helping to quickly develop various designs with high performance, low power consumption and small packaging that are commonly required in markets such as industry, healthcare, broadcasting, automotive, aerospace and security.

Live lecturer: Xu Cai

Excerpt from the Live FAQ:

1. What is the current level of the general power supply circuit?
A: 1 to 6A
2. What are the voltage levels supported?
A: 1.2V ~3.3V LVCMOS, and also supports various differential signals.
3. For ordinary single-ended IO, what is the highest MHz rate ?
A: 1.6Gbps
4. What is the highest resolution of the MIPI display interface? Can it realize the dual-screen display function with HDMI?
A: 1080p
5. Does it support Ethernet communication? What is the highest communication rate
? A: 10G Ethernet
6. Microchip's FPGA packages are all BGA and the like. What is the minimum size?
A: 11*11
7. How many DSP units are there in the chip ?
A: 1146 DSPs
8. Is the FPGA SOC a customizable core?
A: 1 E51 and 4 U54 can be flexibly configured
9. What is the role of the FPGA Serdes interface? How many Serdes interfaces does Microchip's FPGA support at most?
A: 24 channels, support PCIE, Ethernet, JESD204B, etc.
10. How many logic engineering samples will Polarfire SOC release first? When is it expected to be released?
A: 250K, in the third quarter
11. Does Microchip FPGA have PCIE?
A: 2 PCIe X4 Gen2
12. What is the maximum clock speed of Microchip's FPGA products?
A: 300MHz
13. What is the maximum memory of Microchip's FPGA chip? ?
A: 32 MbRAM
14. What is the operating temperature range of Microchip's FPGA? How about the anti-interference ability?
A: -40 ~105 degrees, SEU immune
15. What is the industrial temperature of Microchip's FPGA products?
A: -40 to 100, standard I level requirements:)
16. What level of recognition rate can be achieved as a machine vision?
A: 4K2K
17. What is the resolution supported by the HDMI IP core?
A: 4K2K
18. What is the maximum and minimum pixel size of the output image ?
A: 4K2K
19. How many IO interfaces does the current FPGA support at most?
A: More than 500
20. How much storage space does Microchip's FPGA product have built-in flash?
A: 512kB
21. What types of FPGAs are used in 5G?
A: Smartfustion2/IGLOO2, Polarfire FPGA, Polarfire FPGA SOC can be used for 5G FPGAs
22. In which fields has Microchip's FPGA packaging been applied?
A: 5G, video, medical and other fields
23. How long is the product ordering cycle ?
A: 8 weeks
24. Microchip's FPGAs are rare on the market. What are their main applications?
A: Actel FPGA --Microsemi FPGA ---Microchip FPGA; mainly used in industry, communications, medical and aviation.
25. What applications can deep learning correspond to?
A: ADAS security and other applications26
. What security designs have been made by Microchip's FPGA?
A: AES encryption, Flash structure, no readback, tamper detection, power-on self-test, password, programming interface detection and protection.
27. What encryption method does the PolarFire FPGA architecture use?
A: AES/SHA, etc., deployed by the cypto coprocessor28
. Under what extreme circumstances will SEU immunity occur?
A: Alpha or neutron impact29
. How to connect the external interface and memory and the FPGA core itself together?
A: AMBA
30. Which agents are there?
A: AX WT ARROW, etc.
31. Which Shenzhen agents are there?
A: AX WT ARROW, etc.
32. Is the IP library charged ?
A: case by case
33. Does Microchip FPGA provide DDR3 IP core?
A: DD3 DD4 LPDDR has
34. What kind of cracking behavior characteristics does tamper detection mainly detect?
A: DPA
35. What are the things generally integrated in FPGA chips? ROM? Cache?
A: DSP RAM XCVR MCU
36. What is the maximum number of IOs of Microchip FPGA at present?
A: FCG1152 584 USER IO
37. What is the principle of SEU immunity?
A: Flash j structure, advantages brought by process.
38. The power consumption is lower than similar products. What technology is mainly used?
A: Flash technology, SERDES special design
39. What is the difference between Microchip's FPGA and other brands of FPGA?
A: Flash process, other companies use SRAM process
40. What is the power consumption level of various working states?
A: FPGA power consumption depends on the application and design implementation. Compared with other FPGAs, our power consumption can be reduced by more than 30%.
41. Compared with MCU, what are the advantages?
A: FPGA can realize high-performance parallel algorithms and data processing. Some processing cannot be handled by MCU, especially in terms of performance processing.
42. Can the medical ventilator designed with FPGA be easily modified by software and easy to use with high reliability? Xinghua asked
A: FPGA can be used in medical equipment such as ventilators. It is much stronger than CPU processing in terms of reliability and high performance.
43. 6. Power supply voltage range, how much is the low-power static current?
A: FPGA requires multiple power supplies, and the lowest power consumption, such as IGLOO, can reach 4uW.
44. How does Microchip's PolarFire SoC FPGA communicate with the RISC-V core in IPC? Does Microchip already have the corresponding IP for direct application?
A: FPGA and RISC-V communicate through AXI. The communication is hard-core, not soft-core, so no additional IP is required.
45. The anti-interference performance of FPGA using ordinary double-sided PCB will be relatively poor. Should the FPGA signal line be routed according to high-speed signals?
A: FPGA's ordinary GPIO is not a high-speed signal. HSIO and XCVR pins need to be paid special attention.
46. I would like to ask if the webrtc (instant messaging) technology currently used in audio and video communication can be associated with
A: FPGA is one of the core processing devices of modern communication equipment, and it should be supported. But whether it can be a single-chip solution requires further research.
47. Can the medical ventilator designed with FPGA be modified with software technology to have easy-to-use and convenient features? What are the advantages of this FPGA technology over the ventilator designed with chips?
A: The main advantages of FPGA are parallel computing and flexibility
. 48. What are the main products produced by Microsemi?
A: G3 PA3 IGLOO SF/G4 IGLOO2 SF2/G5 PF
49. How fast is IO?
A: G5 1.6Gbps
50. How many global clocks are there?
A: G5 has 24 global clocks.
51. Regarding the IP of images, are there IPs for image compression and rotation?
A: H.264/265
52. Does Microchip have a matching development board for FPGA?
A: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/design-resources/1712-dev-kits-boards
53. What are the microchip FPGA development software?
A: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/design-resources/1750-libero-soc
54. Where can I download the development software?
A: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/design-resources/1750-libero-soc
55. What kind of IDE does Microchip develop? Is there a corresponding license? How much is it?
A: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/design-resources/1750-libero-soc , Small device development license is free
56. What structure does the synchronous clock use? Is it an H tree or another structure?
A: H tree
57. How does IAR systems, which are commonly used by developers, support multi-core debugging of PolarFire SOC? Does MicroChip provide corresponding AN to help developers learn to use it?
A: IAR can support it, but we need to wait until our product is released
58. What debugging tools does Microchip use for FPGA?
A: identify and smartdebug
59. What debugging functions does PolarFire SoC have?
A: JTAG/UART/JLINK smartdebug identify softconsole
60. Is the development environment of Microchip's FPGA MPLAB?
A: libero
61. What development environment does Microchip's FPGA use?
A: Libero SoC
62. What is the development environment of Microchip FPGA? Does it require lisence?
A: Libero SOC, Softconsole. Small devices provide free licenses
63. What development tools do you use for development?
A: Libero SOC, download location https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/design-resources/1750-libero-soc
64. Do you use vivado development tools for development?
A: libero SOC. download: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/design-resources/1750-libero-soc
65. What development environment do you use?
A: Libero SOC; download: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/design-resources/1750-libero-soc
66. What programming software is used for Microchip's FPGA ?
A: Libero SOC https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/design-resources/1750-libero-soc
67. What is the development environment like?
A: Libero SOC v12.3 integrated development environment, you can download it for free and apply for a free license to use it
. 68. What are Microchip's FPGA development tools? Can general FPGA development tools support it?
A: Libero SOC/Libero IDE/softconsole
69. What are Microchip's Fpga development tools? Is there any difference between the architecture and others?
A: Libero Ours is a flash architecture FPGA, and other companies are SRAM FPGAs
. 70. What does Microchip's Mi-V ecosystem include, what are its highlights, and what are the advantages for end users?
A: The biggest advantage of Libero/softconsole/IP is low power consumption, streamlined instruction set and high efficiency.
71. What OS runs inside ?
A: Linux or RTOS
72. What hard IPs are integrated in PolarFire FPGA?
A: MAC, SERDES, PCIe, RISCV, PLL/DLL, DDRx PHY...
73. What compiler software does Microchip support for FPGA product development?
A: Microchip FPGA product development editing software supports Microchip Libero software for synthesis, simulation, layout and routing, debugging, etc.
74. Is Microchip's FPGA development environment its own?
A: Microchip FPGA's integrated development environment is LIBERO. Libero integrates synthesis, pre-simulation, post-simulation, layout and routing, and debugging tools. Synplify is integrated for synthesis, Modelsim is integrated for simulation, and the others are all Microchip's.

Developed by myself75
. What are the main advantages of Microchip's FPGA? How about power consumption and performance?
A: Compared with competing products, Microchip FPGA has ultra-low static power consumption, which can achieve product development with the same performance, and it also has high reliability and security76. Are
Microchip's FPGA products mature products? Are there any successful cases at present?
A: Microchip FPGA has developed to the current fifth-generation G5 Polarfire FPGA. The previous third and fourth generations were large-scale two-field products. The fifth-generation products have also been mass-produced and some customers have begun to innovate designs77
. What is the common development environment of Microchip's FPGA? Is a license required? Does it support cross-platform application development?
A: Microchip FPGA development tool is Libero SOC. If it is a SOC product, there is also SoftConsole software development IDE. Correspondingly, paid licenses and free licenses with different functions are provided. What does "cross-platform application development" mean?
78. How is the power consumption of Microsem FPGA compared to ordinary SRAM FPGA, and how is it achieved?
A: Microchip FPGA is Flash-based, and its static power consumption is about 1/10 of that of SRAM-based FPGA with similar process nodes. Combined with the optimization of device architecture for power consumption and low-power and high-performance peripheral IP (such as SerDes), Microchip

FPGA is very advantageous in terms of power consumption.
79. What is the ECCN level?
A: Microchip FPGA is graded. Devices with an S require export licenses; ordinary commercial devices do not. Its ECCN is: 3A991.D
80. MicroChip also has FPGAs? I only remember that there are single-chip microcomputers.
A: Microchip's FPGAs come from Microsemi's FPGA products acquired in 2018. Microsemi's FPGAs rank among the top three in global market share.
81. Are the development tools compatible with Xilinx?
A: Microchip's development tools are not compatible with Xilinx. Thank you.
82. How many series of Microchip's FPGA products can be used in what occasions?
A: Microchip has developed to the fifth generation of products, including anti-fuse, third generation products, fourth generation products and fifth generation products based on 28nm SONOS. Each generation has a series of products. You can visit the MICROSEMI website for details.
83. Microchip FPGA running speed, is there a PLL?
A: Microchip can support 40G Fabric processing performance, with PLL, and DLL, PLL and DLL can be cascaded84.
Is the cost of FPGA products high?
A: Microchip provides cost-effective FPGA products85
. Does FPGA security integrate a dedicated encryption chip, or is it DPA power consumption detection certificationA
: Microchip's FPGA is integrated in the three areas of data security, design security, and security hardware inside the chip, and also has DPA certification86
. Which platform does Microchip use for FPGA product software development?
A: Microchip provides the development tool Libero SOC. For more information, please visit the website: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/fpga-soc/1637-design-resources87
. Does Microchip have military-grade FPGA products?
A: Microchip has leading technology in the aerospace and military fields, and of course there will be military-grade products88
. Does Microchip provide a powerful Linux development environment, such as petalinux of xlinix, for rapid development of RISC-V cores?
A: Microhip will provide a Linux development environment to support the development of 5-core RISC-V.
89. Can you introduce Microsemi?
A: Microsemi Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP), offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions.

for communications, defense & security, aerospace 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.
90. Is the simulator proprietary or third-party?
A: Modelsim, VCS!
91. What level of IP soft core can be provided?
A: netlist
92. What communication protocols are supported?
A: PCIE/USXGMII/XAUI, etc.
93. What communication interfaces are there and what communication speeds are supported?
A: PCIE/USXGMII/XAUI, etc.
94. Does Microhip have a dual-core chip with MCU+FPGA? How about power consumption?
A: PF SOC, which has obvious power consumption advantages over competitors
95. Can Microsemi run Linux system?
A: PF SOC can
96. Is there a corresponding development kit?
A: PF VIDEO KIT
97. Can the latest generation of FPGA products be mass-produced this year?
A: PF is already in mass production
98. Does deep learning require the support of peripheral sensors?
A: PF supports most sensor interfaces
. 99. In terms of high-speed storage of ADC data, such as 500KX4 channels, are there any recommended FPGA products with higher cost performance and fewer pins? Thank you.
A: Polarfire
100. When is the evaluation kit of Microsemi / Microchip PolarFire expected to be launched? Is there an SDK available for preview now?
A: Polarfire FPGA already has an evaluation board. You can refer to the MSCC official website. MSCC agents also have some POLARFIRE FPGA evaluation boards available for purchase.
101. What is the smallest size of Microchip's new package?
A: The smallest package of Polarfire FPGA can be 11x11
. 102. How many high-speed ports are supported ?
A: Polarfire FPGA can support up to 24 12.7G high-speed communication interfaces. Depending on the package and scale, the supported high-speed ports are also different.
103. What is the relationship between Microchip's PolarFire SoC FPGA product and RISC-V?
A: The integrated processor core of Polarfire SOC is 5 RISC-V cores104
. When will the PolarFire SoC sample be launched? Will individual developers have the opportunity to get a development board?
A: Polarfire SOC is currently undergoing internal testing and samples are expected to be available in July. For development boards, please follow our official website105
. How many megabytes can the clock reach?
A: Polarfire is theoretically 480Mhz106
. How many nanometers is this? Does it have any power consumption advantage over other brands?
A: Polarfire is a 28nm process107
. What is the current mass production situation?
A: The Polarfire series is already available.
108. What are the current high-end series and models of Microchip FPGA?
A: Polarfire is our most advanced series currently on the market. For more information, please refer to: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/fpgas/3854-polarfire-fpgas109
. How many nanometers is Microchip's FPGA made of?
A: The Polarfire series is 28nm110
. What series of Microchip FPGA are there?
A: ProASIC3/IGLOO/SMARTFUSION IGLOO2/SMARTFUSION2 POLARFIRE
111. Which OS are supported?
A: Real time OS and LINUX
112. What kernel is used?
A: RISC_V, cortex M3.
113. Is the soft core like RISC-V open source?
A: RISC_V is the instruction set open source, not the kernel design open source.
114. Does Microchip FPGA have any design in code security and confidentiality?
A: Security is one of the advantages of Microchip FPGA. We classify code security as design security. For more information, please refer to the following webpage: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/fpga-soc/1738-

security#design-security
115. What is SEU immune configuration?
A: single event upset
116. Does it have an ARM processor?
A: Smartfusion2 integrates the CortexM3 hard core; Polarfire SOC integrates the RISC-V hard core
. 117. What software is used to program the core and how to use it?
A: softconsole
118. What transmission methods does this FPGA support ?
A: SPI and JTAG programming
. 119. Do you plan to launch some activities in the future and send some development boards to everyone for evaluation?
A: There will definitely be trainng or similar webinars, but it is rare to send development boards. If you want to evaluate, it is recommended to communicate with the agent or directly contact the Microchip sales who supports you to coordinate resources.
120. Are the two HDMI 2.0 outputs?
A: TXRX
121. What debugging functions does PolarFire SoC support and how many breakpoints are supported at most?
A: UART/JTAG/JLINK/SPI breakpoint support is related to the IDE tool used.
122. Is there a manual for the DSP library?
A: UG0680
123. What industrial camera interfaces can the chip support? USB2.0. USB3.0, Gigabit Ethernet, Cameralink (capture card required)?
A: USB3.1 CXP 10G ETH
124. What are the advantages in transmission rate?
A: XCVR supports a maximum transmission rate of 12.7G
125. 1. What are the application areas and how is the current market promotion? ? 2. What are the communication interfaces and what speeds are supported? 3. Is there an industrial camera interface and what is the supported resolution? 4. Does it support Ethernet communication and what is the maximum communication rate?

5. What is the resolution supported by the HDMI IP core?
A: Security, medical, communication, LoT, artificial intelligence
126. What are the characteristics of Microchip's FPGA compared with FPGAs in the same industry?
A: Safe, reliable, low power consumption, single chip, not afraid of power failure.
127. What does Microchip's FPGA intelligent embedded vision solution include? What information does Microchip provide?
A: Including devices, IPs with different functions, development documents, reference designs, etc. For more information, please visit the following website: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/technology/3861-imaging
128. Are interfaces such as US RMII PCI hard core or soft core?
A: The older interfaces are implemented with logic resources. Soft core
129. What components are needed to build the development environment, and what fields are applied in the automotive industry ?
A: For example, ADAS INVERTER
130. Are there any application scenarios in medical in vitro diagnosis?
A: For example, ultrasound X RAY MRI
131. Does PolarFire provide free samples?
A: No!
132. If the product is used in the storage field, will long-term data reading and writing lead to a decline in chip performance?
A: No, please refer to the reliability report on our official website for details.
133. Is low power consumption achieved by chip technology or architecture? Is the advertised low power consumption under normal application, or does it reduce performance?
A: It will not reduce performance, and low power consumption is achieved by both technology and design.
134. Is the FPGA solution higher in price and design threshold?
A: Not necessarily! Regarding cost, the FPGA solution is not necessarily higher than other solutions, and specific cases need to be analyzed. There are more comprehensive requirements for the designer's ability, but as a manufacturer, we also have a lot of resources to help users reduce the difficulty of design, such as hardware design.

In terms of design files, we provide development boards for users as references. In terms of FPGA logic design, we provide various functional IPs, reference designs and application solutions.
135. Does it have greater cost advantages than MCU in the field of power electronics?
A: It is impossible to give a general conclusion. Even if it is limited to the field of power electronics, in different application scenarios, FPGA solutions and MCU solutions have their own advantages. We cannot only compare prices.
136. Are all Microchip's FPGAs based on PolarFire architecture? What are the advantages compared with FPGAs from other manufacturers?
A: They are not different series with different architectures. The biggest features are low power consumption, safety, reliability and instant power-on.
137. In what aspects does Microchip's FPGA have a high cost-effectiveness? Can it replace ARM applications?
A: It is not a replacement, but it is used in the field of hardware acceleration.
138. What is the smallest package size?
A: The smallest package size of different series of FPGAs is different. For example, the smallest package size of IGLOO is 3x3, while the smallest package size of Polarfire is 11x11. Please refer to the relevant documents139
. How many serdes interfaces are supportedA
: The number of serdes interfaces in different series and packages is different. Polarfire supports up to 24 12.7GSerDes
140. What is the power supply rangeA
: The core power supply voltage of different series is different, and the approximate range is gradually reduced from 1.5v to 1v
141. What are the characteristics of SmartDebug built into PolarFire SOC?
A: Internal signals and built-in modules can be located without recompiling142
. Does MPLAB support FPGA simulation download debugging?
A: No143
. What is the difference between Microsemi's FPGA and Xilinx's FPGA? Can it be used in 5G high-speed communication base stations?
A: The processes used are different. Microsemi's FPGA is based on FLASH process, and Xilinx is based on SRAM process, so there are differences in reliability, power consumption, and performance, and it can be used in 5G144.
Where can I download the chip specification sheetA
: Refer to the MICROSEMI website https://www.microsemi.com/
145. How to ensure network security and how to encrypt user data?
A: Refer to UG0753
146. What are your company's chip and EDA related application books?
A: Refer to the official website
147. What are the characteristics of its multiplier ?
A: Refer to manual UG0680
148. What is the IO ESD protection level of Microchip FPGA?
A: Refer to our UG0680
149. Compared with similar medium-density FPGAs, how much lower is the total power consumption of Microchip's FPGA products?
A: About 30%
150. Are programmers and emulators expensive?
A: About 500RMB
151. Should I buy the new series directly from the original manufacturer or from an agent ?
A: Agent.
152. Is there an FPGA with ARM core that can replace the XILINX ZYNQ series?
A: The one with ARM core is smartfusion2, the core is CM3, which cannot replace ZYNQ, but it can be replaced by Polarfire SOC with 5-core RISC-V.
153. What are the advantages of Microchip's FPGA products over FPGAs of the same price from other manufacturers?
A: Single chip, safe, reliable, low power
consumption154. Can Microchip's FPGA products provide hardware design document referencesA
: Of course, Microchip's technical experts will review the schematic diagram for you when the customer is designing the product155
. Do you need to consider EMC issues for PCB design?
A: Of course you should consider it!
156. Does Microchip's FPGA products provide small packages, low costs, and low power consumption models?
A: Of course, we can do 11X11 packaging on the scale of Polarfire FPGA 200K LE, and the smallest G3 generation product can support 3x3 packaging. Of course, the scale will be very small, depending on the specific application157.
Compared with Xilinx's FPGA, is there a series that can be replaced?
A: Of course, it can replace FPGAs of the same performance and scale158
. Does Microchip's solution provide sample reference designs, demonstration designs, and supporting documents? How to obtain them?
A: Check it out here: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/design-resources/1750-libero-soc
159. What are the characteristics of PolarFire in environments with limited heat dissipation, power and space?
A: Low power consumption and small package
160. What are the characteristics and advantages compared with Xilinx and others?
A: Low power consumption, safety and reliability. No need to power on and repeat programming after power failure after programming.
161. What are the advantages of Microchip's FPGA compared with other products?
A: Low power consumption, safety, reliability, instant power on
162. Compared with previous generations of FPGA, what are the outstanding advantages
A: The 5th generation is 4-6 times better than previous FPGAs in performance, providing more SRAM resources, more DSP resources, stronger FARIC processing capabilities, and stronger SERDES processing capabilities on a single chip
163. Where can I learn about product prices? Official website?
A: Call our agents, Arrow, Avnet, Acromax, Future. . 164.
Does a small package have high requirements for the manufacturing process? For example, is the current 7nm technology the limit?
A: The package size is related to the packaging process. The 7nm you mentioned is a semiconductor process, the process used to produce Die. The most advanced process for mass-produced chips is 7nm, but more advanced 5nm and 3nm are already under development.
165. What is the lowest and highest temperature that PolarFire devices can reach in an industrial environment?
A: Minus 40 to 125
166. What are the advantages of the FPGA solution?
A: High performance, fast response, and upgradeable!
167. Does Microchip's FPGA provide a demo board to view its features?
A: Each series of FPGAs has a variety of development boards with different functions to support users to evaluate various device features and functions.
168. How to determine how much memory is needed?
A: Calculate data throughput based on the application
. 169. Will products designed using FPGA consider power consumption?
A: Power consumption is an indicator that needs to be considered in all hardware designs, not just FPGAs.
170. What is the minimum current of FPGA memory? You can check the package size parameters on
A: Official website.
171. Where can I find Microchip FPGA information and cases? Is it open source?
A: Official website https://www.microsemi.com/
172. What is the ECCN number of Microchip's FPGA?
A: Check the official website for the specific series.
173. Is it difficult for technicians who are used to 8-bit MCU development to switch to FPGA development?
A: There are learning materials on the official website.
174. What suggestions can Microchip's FPGA products provide in terms of heat dissipation?
A: There are hardware design guidelines on the official website.
175. Is the construction of peripheral circuits more complicated than that of MCU?
A: The official website has hardware design guidance.
176. In what fields are 11x11mm packaged chips used? Smart watches?
A: Optical modules! Industrial cameras, robots, etc.
177. How is the EMI performance? Can it meet military-grade requirements?
A: Domestically, industrial and commercial grades are mainly promoted.
178. Is Microchip's FPGA outstanding in low power consumption?
A: It is also safe, reliable, and single-chip
. 179. Does the opponent refer to Xilinx Altera?
A: All FPGA manufacturers in the industry and the world.
180. Compared with similar products based on static random access memory, what are the advantages of PolarFire FPGA in power consumption?
A: Compared with similar FPGAs based on SRAM process, Polarfire FPGA has ultra-low static power consumption. The general SERDES power consumption can be less than 100mW on a 12G single-channel SERDES.
181. How many A does Microchip's FPGA generally require when starting up?
A: It is related to the size of the device. It is recommended to refer to the corresponding datasheet.
182. How is the compatibility with many non-standard display screens
? A: It is related to the design
. 183. Will the cost of using this FPGA in industrial products be too high
? A: Compared with whom? MCU? ASIC? FPGA?
184. What are the interfaces between FPGA and external communication ?
A: Many, such as PCIE/Ethernet/USB, etc.
185. In the application scenario of processor offloading, what are the applications of FPGA?
A: Many; for communication, there are network packet processing acceleration such as Smart NIC; for data storage, there are FPGA acceleration implementations of encryption and decryption, compression and decompression; for data processing, there is the hottest DL inference acceleration. 186.
How is the computing power of Microchip's FPGA? What occasions are it mainly suitable for? A: Machine vision communication and other markets 187. How is the acceleration effect of Microchip's FPGA on machine vision? A: Machine vision is one of our key applications. We currently support MI/AI on Polarfire FPGA and have corresponding reference designs. 188. Is Microchip's FPGA cheaper than Xilinx's? How is the supply? Have tariffs been imposed? A: The price is comparable, but it has advantages in power consumption, reliability and security. 189. Does this FPGA have mature application products? Are the relevant routines public? A: The ones introduced are all mature products. The official website has routines. 190. When will the 5-core FPGA be launched? Is there a specification? Is it similar to Xilinx's MPSOC? A: In the third quarter of this year, RISCV core 191. What reliability and security functions does the PolarFire SoC architecture have? A: Yes 192. What are the conventional interface applications of Microchip's FPGA? A: Please refer to our official website for details 193. What are the application cases in aviation? Does it support the requirements of the DO254 standard? A: Please refer to our official website for details 194. What are the platform's requirements for hardware processing and software and algorithm control? A: Please refer to our CDL solution for details 195. Does Microchip have many chip products in the field of artificial intelligence? A: Please refer to our official website for details. We have a wide range of product categories. 196. What is the lowest delay ? A: What is the specific delay? 197. Do you provide corresponding development routines or demo boards ? A: You can download the development routines yourself at www.microsemi.com; you need to buy the demo board. 198. Does Microchip FPGA have many multipliers? A: It depends on the device. There are 1480 18x18 MACCs in Polarfire MPF500. 199. How many multipliers are there? Are there dividers? A: It depends on the device. There are 1480 18x18 MACCs in Polarfire MPF500. There is no hard IP for division operations in FPGAs. They are generally implemented by soft IPs such as Cordec. 200. What is SEU immunity? A: It means anti-radiation and anti-interference. 201. Can Microchip's FPGA provide high data throughput to meet the needs of high-resolution images and machine learning algorithms? A: Yes . 202. Can Polar FPGA use algorithms generated by Matlab? If it can be combined with Matlab, the application should be more extensive. A: Yes. 203. Can you provide references for the software algorithms in the solution? A: Yes.



































204. Can it resist the penetration of space particles?
A: Yes
. 205. Can FPGA be used in conjunction with other MCUs
? A: Yes, but we have smartfusion, smartfusion2, and Polarfire SOC, which have integrated ARM Cortex M3 and RISC_V respectively
. 206. Can you provide a selection manual for FPGA after the meeting to facilitate design needs?
A: Yes, the communication address is required
. 207. What IP libraries do you have ?
A: You can install our software Libero SOC, click catelog to view
. 208. What soft cores do you have?
A: You can install our software Libero SOC, click catelog to view.
209. What video processing cores are there?
A: You can refer to the IP introduction on our official website.
210. Is the SEU immunity configuration complicated?
A: You can refer to the introduction of SEU on our official website
. 211. I am interested in AI deployment. Where can I find the corresponding reference materials?
A: You can find it on the MICROSEMI website. Thank you.
212. Can this chip be used in machine vision?
A: Yes.
213. Can a video stream be divided into multiple screens for different displays?
A: Yes, you can communicate with our ESE in detail about your specific needs.
214. How much computing power?
A: It can be flexibly customized according to specific needs.
215. For network video conferencing systems, is there a relatively complete and mature solution, mainly to solve the problems of delay and clarity ?
A: We can discuss in more detail
. 216. What is the driving current of each port?
A: It can be flexibly configured by default 16mA.
217. Is the license of msc's fft ip core expensive? It is the basis of signal processing.
A: You can apply for EVAL LICENSE
. 218. How many free IPs are there? Does the development environment have free license?
A: You can apply for silver license and eval license for free.
219. Video surveillance solution, how to bridge multiple cameras to the chip, are there any recommended bridge chips? For example, Lattice's Crosslink series?
A: You can use our PF
. 220. What resolution does PolarFire FPGA image support?
A: It can support 4K.
221. The clarity of the graphics of the visual system is related to the algorithm, but the light source is very important. Can the solution have control over the camera light source?
A: It can support functional expansion in this area, which is a reflection of the flexibility of the FPGA platform. The specific implementation depends on whether it is a standardized requirement or a customized requirement. If it is the latter, it is often completed by the user.
222. Affected by the epidemic, has Microchip's FPGA supply been affected?
A: It must be affected to a certain extent.
223. How to deploy AI on FPGA? Is there a special tool like Vivado HLS?
A: There is no tool like Vivado HLS that supports C synthesis. However, LiberoSOC supports graphical input, and can also use Matlab Simulink to complete the design related to signal processing, which can be regarded as improving the abstract level of design:)
224. What about the running speed?
A: The theoretical Polarfire speed is 480Mhz,
225. What is the purpose of flexible configuration of computing power, and what are the advantages?
A: Flexibility is a major feature of FPPGA
226. Are there models of every level of benchmarking friends?
A: There is no Virtex level, but all others are available.
227. The list shows that the power consumption of different generations is written as the lowest power consumption. Is it the new generation product with low power consumption or the early generation with low power consumption?
A: Each generation is compared with the same scale products of competitors, such as 28nm and 28nm products.
228. Is the PolarFire architecture unique to Microchip?
A: In a sense, yes. 28. The combination of your Flash-based process + Fabric architecture + 12.7G SerDes,
229. Do you have chips that support DDR5?
A: Polarfire FPGA currently does not support DDR5, but supports DDR4.
230. What ASIL level can be achieved? Can you assist in achieving ASIL?
A: Currently G4 supports automotive grade 1&2.
231. Why is Microchip's FPGA not made with 22nm process ?
A: Currently G5 is 28nm SONOS process
. 232. Does Microchip FPGA development environment support opencl?
A: Currently not supported
. 233. Does PolarFire provide some packages such as LQFP for personal enthusiasts to use more conveniently?
A: Currently all BGA packages
. 234. Does the camera interface support the 1394a/1394b interface of industrial cameras?
A: It is not supported yet
. 235. Does Microchip FPGA have a kit similar to Pluto for wireless transmission for developers to learn and use?
A: It is not available at the moment
. 236. Which series of Microchip's FPGA products has the largest shipment volume?
A: Currently we mainly promote G4 IGLOO2 SF2/G5 PF
. 237. Is this anti-tampering function integrated into the chip or does it require peripheral code support?
A: Internal integration!
238. How is the C programming and Veilog compatible?
A: The kernel is programmed in C, and the fabric part uses RTL.
239. Which competitors are you mainly comparing with?
A: There are only a few that can provide FPGA.
240. I have been using FPGA recently. Xlinix is suitable for large-scale general projects. In fact, Cypress's PSOC series is also a kind of FPGA, which tends to be single embedded tasks. Which type does Microchip's FPGA tend to be?
A: It tends to be ZYNQ ULTRASCALE
241. Where can I find Microchip FPGA development board?
A: Please check the following website: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/design-resources/1712-dev-kits-boards
242. Is there an OTA IP library?
A: Please explain what your OTA means? There are many related abbreviations that are OTA
243. Can intelligent embedded vision recognize people through masks?
A: It depends on the performance of CNN algorithm
244. How much power does the product consume?
A: It depends on the specific series. There are G3 in mW level to G5 in W level
245. Is it also necessary to add FLASH
? A: It depends on the specific application. SPI is not mandatory
246. Is secondary development difficult?
A: It depends on whether there is an FPGA application foundation
247. In the application of face recognition with a resolution of 640*480, what is the maximum FPS that polar FPGA can achieve?
A: It depends on the algorithm
248. Will the supply of microchip be affected by the current relationship between China and the United States?
A: It depends on the chip's origin
. 249. Does PolarFire Soc image processing support hardware acceleration of OpenCV, or is there a corresponding hardware acceleration IP core?
A: Full hardware implementation!
250. We have developed several successful products using Microchip's 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers. Now we are planning to use PIC32MX microcontrollers to develop high-end products, which will also use FPGA to handle high-speed sampling and communication. I wonder if it can

Can it be satisfied?
A: If you process high-speed sampling, you can use the JESD204B interface. Polarfire supports 12G JESD204B. The system FABRIC performance is 40G. What specific performance does your product require?
251. How to apply for samples of Microchip FPGA? What qualifications are required?
A: If your company is a customer directly supported by Microchip, please contact the relevant Sales. If not, you can consider contacting our agents Arrow, Acromax, Future, WT, etc. (Agents are ranked in no particular order:))
252. Do I need to change the MCU development tool?
A: If it is FPGA development, you don’t need MCU development tools. You need Microchip’s integrated development environment LIBERO. If you want to develop SOC FPGA, you also need Softconsole. Of course, if it is an ARM MCU, it can also support third-party tools such as KEIL.
253. Is there a corresponding development kit that can be tried?
A: The software can be freely downloaded online and apply for a free license
. 254. What model is the largest FPGA chip shipped by Microchip now?
A: Commercial secret255
. In which cities are Microchip FPGA FAEs currently located in China?
A: Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing256
. Is the RISC-V ecosystem specifically used for FPGA development? What are the common standards?
A: It is the RISC_V ecosystem, not the FPGA. The main reason is that the instruction set is already determined.257
. Does Microchip's FPGA products have detailed documentation or software estimation for power consumption estimation?
A: Yes258
. Is FPGA a special field for high-speed signal and large-capacity data processing signals?
A: Yes259
. Is PolarFire SoC an SoC FPGA with an L2 memory subsystem?
A:
Yes260. In the application scenarios of machine learning, will different architectural choices affect performance?
A:
Yes261. Is the DDR IP library free?
A:
Yes262. Is Microchip FPGA simulation compatible with modelsim?
A: Yes, it supports multiple simulation tools including modelsim263
. Is it an early actel FPGA?
A: Yes!
264. Does Microsemi FPGA have automotive grade products?
A: Yes!
265. Can it be used in the Internet of Things industry ?
A: Yes.
266. Does this product have relevant development reference routines?
A: Yes, you can get it at www.microsemi.com. Now Microsemi is part of Microchip.
267. What PCIE GEN2.0 X4 can the current chip support?
A: Yes, that's the case at present.
268. From proasic3 to igloo2 to polarfire, we have been using Microsemi products. Will you release higher-end products in the future?
A: Yes.
269. Can PolarFire be used to achieve multi-channel 10 Gigabit Ethernet?
A: Yes. Our SERDES supports 12.7G rate
. 270. What are the advantages in terms of interface and processing power compared with traditional embedded vision application processors
? A: Compared with DSP? Generally speaking, FPGA has great advantages in interface flexibility and bandwidth, and each has its own advantages in processing power and strengths.
271. Were you acquired?
A: Acquired from MIcrosemi
272. Does your company provide software and hardware technical support?
A: Yes
273. How many video inputs can this board support ?
A: Provide FMC card, which can flexibly configure daughter cards
274. What level is the chip and how is the anti-interference?
A: Provide various levels
275. Develop an FPGA, mainly to use it in face recognition cloud. Does Microchip provide technical support?
A: Provide technical support
276. Does Microchip provide supporting software for its intelligent embedded vision solution? Is it charged?
A: Provide supporting software
277. How to realize data transfer within the entire FPGA?
A: Through AMBA bus
278. In what fields have Microchip's FPGAs been applied? Is it easy to develop?
A: Communication 5G, 4G, medical, video, AI artificial intelligence, automotive electronics, industrial automation
279. Does PolarFire SoC support Linux and real-time applications?
A: Support both
280. How is the power consumption?
A: Statistics show that the average power consumption is 30%~50% lower than that of competitors' products.
281. Are there any mature FPGA products made by Microchip in the market?
A: The products promoted are mature products, mainly G3/G4/G5.
282. Are there any applications for LCD screens?
A: It can be supported.
283. Is Microchip's FPGA new? Microchip mainly promotes 8-bit MCU, right?
A: Our product line is very broad, and MCU8 is only a part of it.
284. Does Microchip have products such as CPLD?
A: Many of our G3 generation products (ProASIC3, IGLOO) are positioned as CPLD replacment. In G4, there are also several IGLOO2 with a logic capacity of less than 30K LE.
285. How is the speed of image recognition? Can it be used for motion detection? I have a project recently that requires us to find specific faces in the crowd and locate the route through multiple cameras, but the speed/recognition accuracy of the current solution is not satisfactory.

A
: Our IP currently only supports target recognition, but not facial recognition.
286. Does it support multi-channel ADC? Can the accuracy reach 24 bits?
A: Our smartfusion series supports ADC
287. Does this chip have deep learning samples?
A: Our target recognition samples are based on tinyyolo
288. Does Microchip have many alternative products to FPGA products?
A: We are the only flash FPGA supplier in the industry
289. Can embedded FPGA be integrated into a machine learning (ML) system-on-chip (SOC)?
A: We hope to integrate the machine learning engine into our PF SOC
290. Lattice has very small FPGAs. Will Microchip have such FPGAs in the future?
A: We now have very small packages in small-capacity FPGAs, such as IGLOO/IGLOO2
291. What package? What size?
A: We have multiple series of FPGA products, each series has different sizes of packages, please visit the corresponding product webpage: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/1636-fpga-soc
292. Microchip's FPGA products are currently learning from each other?
A: We have relevant third parties to provide deployment of CNN to MCHP FPGA
293. Are there any solutions for power electronics?
A: We only provide chips and guarantee security and reliability. What is the specific solution?
294. How can I get started with Microchip's FPGA as soon as possible?
A: Download the software and do a simple development!
295. Is there any major improvement in the current development environment Libero SOC?
A: Compared with the previous generation, the Libero SOC development environment has greatly improved in ease of use, development efficiency, and layout and routing.
296. Can you explain the PolarFire architecture?
A: For details, please refer to UG0680
297. Are there any consumer product applications?
A: Consumer is also an application direction of FPGA298
. Is the IP of deep learning provided free of charge? Do I need to sign a license document?
A: NDA is required299
. What are the advantages of using FPGA to design medical ventilators compared with the current products on the market in terms of cost performance?
A: You need to understand the mainstream solutions and pain points of the current ventilator market300
. Do you need to go through an inspection when purchasing microchip's FPGA?
A: You need to sign an EUS301
. MCU FGPA peripherals have similarities. In what occasions are FPGA SOC mainly used and have advantages?
A: Hardware acceleration, parallel computing, and high real-time requirements are required302
. Does Microchip FPGA have a cost-effective model within 20 yuan?
A: Yes, low-density products303
. How is the multi-core CPU cluster of microchip polarFire SOC realized? Is there any relevant documentation?
A: One boot MCU + four MPUs are connected through the AHB bus bridge. Please refer to the official website document for
details304. What is the difference between FPGA and microcontroller?
A: One parallel processing, one serial processing, one high speed, and one slow speed;
305. What are the current industry application cases? Is there a link for a detailed introduction?
A: For some preliminary introductions, please refer to the following webpage: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/fpga-soc/3855-fpga-applications
306. Is there any technical support in Chengdu?
A: Yes
307. Is there an IP for HDMI RX; TX? Does HDMI support 4K UHD ?
A: Yes
308. Is FPGA used in the field of face recognition?
A: Yes
309. Is there an IP for video cutting?
A: Yes
310. Is there an IP for multi-camera splicing?
A: Yes
311. Does Microchip FPGA have serdes?
A: Yes 12.7GXCVR
312. Does Microsemi FPGA have AEC-Q100 certified products?
A: Yes. The products that are AECQ-100 certified are mainly the third and fourth generation FPGA and SOC FPGA. The fifth generation is undergoing ACQ-100 certification. I hope to see it soon.
313. Does Microchip's FPGA have a hard MCU core integrated inside? If so, what is the architecture?
A: There are five RISCVs.
314. Does Microchip's FPGA have models with ARM cores?
A: Yes, Smartfusion2 is an FPGA SOC product with ARM CM3. Welcome to choose it.
315. Does Microchip's FPGA have a heterogeneous combination of MCU+FPGA?
A: Yes, there are two generations of products, Smartfusion and Smartfusion2, on the market. The integrated CPU core is CortexM3; in the middle of this year, we will have Polarfire SOC with 5 RISC-V cores on the market.
316. Does Microchip's FPGA have sample code for deep learning?
A: There is a reference project
. 317. What kind of visual recognition development IP cores does FPGA provide? Are they free and open?
A: There is a reference project
. 318. Are Microchip's chips used in AI or VR fields?
A: Yes
319. Does Microchip's FPGA contain DSP function modules?
A: Yes
320. Does thermal imager have any application?
A: Yes
321. Do you have PWM IP for digital power supply applications?
A: Yes
322. Does your company have CPLD chips?
A: Yes, ProASIC3 IGLOO
323. Does Microchip have documentation for the PCB layout of the external interface of FPGA?
A: Some official websites have board design guide
324. Do you have a migration value of FREERTOS?
A: Some official websites have samples
325. Are there any related tutorials?
A: Yes, you can go to www.microsemi.com and find the FPGA series you are interested in. You can see many routines and tutorials under it. In addition, after installing the development software, there are also tutorials under the installation location.
326. Does Microchip's FPGA intelligent embedded vision solution have solutions suitable for automotive electronics?
A: Yes, automotive electronics is an important application field of Microchip FPGA
327. Does the FOC application of motors have a library?
A: Yes, we have a complete motor control solution based on G4
328. Does Microchip's FPGA vision solution have corresponding solutions for photoelectric sorting equipment?
A: There are similar solutions
. 329. Are Microchip's FPGAs used in automotive electronics?
A: Yes, some packages have automotive-grade products. More automotive-grade FPGA products will be launched in the future.
330. Do Microchip's FPGA products provide free IP cores?
A: Many basic IPs are integrated in the development software Libero SOC, and there is no additional IP license. Libero SOC has a paid license and a free license.
331. When did you first hear that you have FPGAs ?
A: The original Actel FPGA.
332. Should the temperature rise of FPGAs be considered during design?
A:
It has been considered in device design. 333. How does a deterministic L2 memory subsystem help actual applications? Why do we need this determinism?
A: This is to ensure that critical tasks can respond in a timely manner and complete processing within the specified time.
334. How much power does the chip consume ?
A: This is related to the chip model and user design. But compared with SRAM-type FPGAs of similar size, Microchip FPGAs have low power consumption as our advantage.
335. Which well-known companies are currently using Microchip?
A: This is a trade secret
. 336. Is the intelligent embedded vision solution provided by Microchip applied in the robot arm of the factory?
A: This is a typical application scenario
. 337. What is the highest rate of sensor interface supported by the GPIO of the PolarFire solution?
A: This depends on the IO standard used by the sensor interface. The faster ones, such as MIPI CSI RX, can run up to 1.5Gbps/lane on Polarfire
. 338. Is low power consumption achieved by chip process or architecture? Is the advertised low power consumption in normal application, or does it reduce performance?
A: In normal use! The low power consumption advantage is brought by structure and process.
339. Is the camera interface supported by Microchip's FPGA products MIPI? Does it support cameras with DVP interface?
A: Yes.
340. Can Microchip's FPGA support 4K high-definition image processing?
A: Yes.
341. Does it support collaborative development with MATLAB during the development process?
A: Yes.
342. Does it support the development method based on model design?
A: Yes
. 343. Does it support the development and use of etnercat?
A: Yes
344. Does it support MATLAB?
A: Yes
345. Does Microchip FPGA development environment support .sv files?
A: Yes
346. Does SerDes support HDMI 2.0? Is there a corresponding IP?
A: Yes
347. Does it support DDR3 ?
A: Yes!
348. 2. Does Microchip's FPGA product support two cameras PIP display?
A: Yes, we can provide reference design and demonstration.
349. Does it support rtl code converted by Matlab?
A: Yes, please refer to https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/dev-tools/5540-dsp-design-tools for relevant information
350. What are the characteristics of PolarFire FPGA in terms of storage space?
A: Support DDR4/DD3/LPDDR
351. Does RISC-V soft CPU support free RTOS? Compare FreeRTOS
A: Support FreeRTOS
352. If Microchip's FPGA uses external flash, what should I pay attention to?
A: Support MSPI mode external SPI flash
353. Will Microchip PloarFire development environment directly support C/C++ language acceleration function in FPGA in the future?
A: Yes.
354. Does it support high-speed communication interface?
A: Yes.
355. Does the software support schematic method ?
A : Yes.
356. Does it support remote communication and code modification?
A: Yes.
357. For long-term operation, does the chip support continuous operation 365 days a year?
A: As long as the operating environment is normal (does not exceed the conditions listed in the datasheet), long-term continuous operation is of course possible.
358. What is the maximum effective current allowed
? A: Which power rail is it referring to? FPGA has many power supply voltages.
359. What interfaces with industrial cameras do chips support in the field of video surveillance? For example, USB, camelink, etc.
A: Mainstream protocols are supported, such as USB3.1 10GE ETH CXP
360. What are the application fields?
A: Mainly industry, communication, medical treatment, aviation, etc.
361. Is the visual solution the kind of face recognition?
A: Mainly for edge-side object recognition, gesture recognition, object classification and other applications.
362. Does more ECC mean better verification effect?
A: Mainly data error correction and error detection; it means error correction, multi-bit alarm.
363. What are the limitations of free development tools ?
A: Mainly the supported device models.
364. The acquired microsemi is still very powerful. I don’t know in which direction to integrate in the future.
A: Mainly medical treatment, industry, communication and aviation; especially applications that require safety, reliability and low power consumption.
365. What is the RISC-V ecosystem? Can you explain it?
A: Mainly refers to the support of many manufacturers, providing compilers, debuggers, protocol stacks, etc.
366. What are the characteristics of the structure of the 5th generation logic resources? What are the similarities and differences between Altera and Xilinx?
A: The main feature is the low-power architecture, and the overall power consumption is only half of the same-scale devices of competitors.
367. Do you provide on-site support for small customers?
A: Mainly through agents
. 368. Is the low-power advantage of Microsemi's FPGA mainly achieved through hardware physics (such as chip manufacturing process) or through hardware software (such as intermittent work, unique operation process)? Thank you.
A: Mainly achieved through floating gate process
. 369. In storage applications, do you do node acceleration?
A: Mainly do reasoning on the node
. 370. How do I change the IO type from CLKBUF to INBUF?
A: Synthesis tool plus constraints
. 371. What is the transmission rate supported by the SDI interface?
A: Up to 12G