Radiation-Tolerant PolarFire^® SoC FPGAs

First RISC-V^® Based, Radiation-Tolerant System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGA

Our radiation-tolerant PolarFire^® SoC FPGA is the industry’s first embedded, real-time, Linux^®-capable, RISC-V-based Microprocessor Subsystem (MSS) on the flight-proven, radiation-tolerant PolarFire FPGA fabric. Unlike SRAM-based alternatives, these devices bring low power consumption and zero configuration upsets to embedded systems. These devices are supported by our extensive Mi-V ecosystem for RISC-V-based solution stack development.

The RTPF500ZT RT PolarFire FPGA is now QML Class Q qualified, offering low-power, radiation-tolerant performance with no configuration upsets to meet the requirements of mission-critical space systems. Engineering samples of the RT PolarFire SoC FPGA, integrating a RISC-V^® processor with proven FPGA fabric, are also available for advanced payload and avionics development. To learn more, contact a Microchip sales representative or authorized worldwide distributor.

Key Benefits

Low Power Consumption

40% to 50% lower total FPGA power consumption than competing SRAM FPGAs
Low-power MSS, consuming 55% lower power than competing SoC FPGAs at a CoreMark^® score of 8,000

Radiation Tolerance

100 Krad Total Ionizing Dose (TID)
Complete absence of configuration upsets
Single-Event Latch-Up (SEL) threshold that exceeds 75 MeV.cm²/mg with 2.5V I/Os

Qualification for Space Flight

Hermetically sealed ceramic package with 1.0 mm column pitch and Six Sigma columns designed to support QML class Q and QML class V qualification
Organic ball-grid-array plastic package with a path to JEDEC and QML class Y qualification

Product Table

	Features	RTPFS160ZT	RTPFS460ZT
FPGA Fabric	K Logic Elements (4LUT + DFF)	161	461
	Math Blocks (18 × 18 MACC)	498	1420
	LSRAM Blocks (20 kbits)	520	1460
	uSRAM Blocks (64 × 12)	1494	4260
	Total RAM Mbits	11.3	31.6
	uPROM Kbits	415	553
	User DLLs/PLLs	8 each	8 each
Microprocessor Subsystem (MSS)	Boot/Monitor Core	1 × E51 core: RISC-V^® RV64IMAC, 625 MHz
	Application Cores	4 × U54 cores; RISC-V RV64GC, 625 MHz
	L2 Cache¹	2 MB; configurable as cache, Loosely Integrated Memory (LIM) or Scratchpad
	Data Security	DPA-resistant Athena TeraFire^® crypto coprocessor available in devices with the suffix "S"
	Ethernet	Yes; 2 × Gigabit Ethernet MAC
	MMC	Yes; MMC 5.1
	CAN	Yes; 2 × CAN
	QSPI	Yes; 1 × QSPI
	SPI	Yes; 2 × SPI
	I²C	Yes; 2 × I²C
	UART	Yes; 5 x UART
	USB	Yes; 1 x USB 2.0 OTG
High-Speed I/O	250 Mbps to 12.7 Gbps SerDes Lanes	8	20
High-Speed I/O	PCIe^® Gen 2 End Points/Root Ports	2	2
Total FPGA I/O	HSIO + GPIO	312	516
Total MSS I/O	MSS I/O	136	136
MSS DDR DB	MSS DDR Data Bus	32	32
		RTPFS160ZT	RTPFS460ZT
Packaging	Type/Size/Pitch	Total User I/O: MSS-IO/HSIO/GPIO/XCVRs
	FCV(G)784 (23 × 23, 0.8 mm)	136, 144, 168, 8
	FC(G)1509 (40 × 40, 1.0 mm)		136, 180, 336, 20
	CG1509 (40 × 40, 1.0 mm)		136, 180, 336, 20

Notes:

L2 can be configured as cache or RAM. The minimum cache size is 128 KB and the maximum RAM size is 1920 KB. This can be allocated in blocks of 128 KB.

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Document Category	Title	Date
Application Notes	AC492: Running BareMetal User Applications on PolarFire SoC FPGA Application Note	07 Oct 2020	Design Files
Application Notes	AN4723:PolarFire SoC FPGA Video Kit Picture-In-Picture Application Note	18 Apr 2025	Design Files
Application Notes	AN4737: Migrating Software to PolarFire SoC from Zynq-7000 SoC Application Note	13 Feb 2025	Design Files
Application Notes	AN4529: PolarFire SoC FPGA H.264 Video Streaming Over Ethernet Application Note	08 Oct 2024	Design Files
Application Notes	AN4977: OPC UA Industrial Edge Demo	03 Apr 2024	Design Files
Application Notes	AN5165: PolarFire SoC FPGA DSP FIR Filter Application Note	21 Oct 2024	Design Files
Application Notes	AN5282: PolarFire SoC Design Flow Application Note	24 Jul 2024	Design Files
Brochures	DMA Performance Benchmark	07 Mar 2024
Brochures	PolarFire® FPGAs and SoC FPGAs	05 Jun 2024
Brochures	Mi-V RISC-V Ecosystem Brochure	14 Feb 2024
Supporting Collateral	Radiation-Tolerant PolarFire® SoC FPGA Product Overview	11 Apr 2024
Product Brief	PolarFire® SoC Product Overview	20 Jun 2024
White Paper	PolarFire_SoC_CPU_Performance_Benchmarking_Whitepaper	30 Mar 2022
White Paper	PolarFire SoC Linux Boot Time White Paper	30 Mar 2022
White Paper	PolarFire SoC FPGA: Application Waypointing	30 Mar 2022
White Paper	PolarFire® SoC FPGA: Opus Codec Benchmarking	30 Mar 2022
White Paper	PolarFire SoC FPGA: Interrupt Latency and Data Transfer Throughput Measurements	30 Mar 2022
White Paper	Measurement of Worst Case Execution Time on PolarFire® SoC FPGA	13 Feb 2025
White Paper	FPGA Programmed Content Integrity Checking and Programming File Tracking using Cryptographic Digests	24 Jan 2025
Other Board Design Files	PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit Mechanical Drawing	30 Mar 2022
Reference Manual	PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit Schematics	19 Aug 2020
Reference Manual	MPFS-ICICLE-KIT-ES_Board_Files	19 Aug 2020
User Guide	PolarFire SoC FPGA Board Design Guidelines User Guide	22 Aug 2024
User Guide	MPFS-ICICLE-KIT-ES_User Guide	17 Dec 2024
User Guide	PolarFire FPGA and PolarFire SoC FPGA Power Estimator User Guide	09 Dec 2019
User Guide	PolarFire Family Memory Controller User Guide	03 Oct 2024
Tools	Memory Log Analyzer GUI Installer	16 Feb 2025
Board Design Files	PolarFire , PolarFire SoC and RT PolarFire FPGA Power Estimator	20 Feb 2025
Thermal Models	PolarFire SoC Delphi Compact Thermal Model	30 Jan 2025
Reference Manual	PolarFire SoC MSS Technical Reference Manual	09 Jul 2024
Information Sheet	PolarFire SoC FPGA Register Map	31 May 2024
Information Sheet	PolarFire SoC Material Declaration Data Sheet	15 Apr 2025
Data Sheets	PolarFire® SoC Datasheet	03 May 2024
Data Sheets	PD3068: Package Mechanical Drawings Datasheet	17 Apr 2025
	PolarFire SoC MPFS250 FCV484 TX S-parameter Model	07 Feb 2023
	PolarFire SoC MPFS250 FCV484 RX S-parameter Model	07 Feb 2023


Document Category Title Date	Application Notes AC492: Running BareMetal User Applications on PolarFire SoC FPGA Application Note 07 Oct 2020 Design Files
Document Category Title Date	Application Notes AN4723:PolarFire SoC FPGA Video Kit Picture-In-Picture Application Note 18 Apr 2025 Design Files
Document Category Title Date	Application Notes AN4737: Migrating Software to PolarFire SoC from Zynq-7000 SoC Application Note 13 Feb 2025 Design Files
Document Category Title Date	Application Notes AN4529: PolarFire SoC FPGA H.264 Video Streaming Over Ethernet Application Note 08 Oct 2024 Design Files
Document Category Title Date	Application Notes AN4977: OPC UA Industrial Edge Demo 03 Apr 2024 Design Files
Document Category Title Date	Application Notes AN5165: PolarFire SoC FPGA DSP FIR Filter Application Note 21 Oct 2024 Design Files
Document Category Title Date	Application Notes AN5282: PolarFire SoC Design Flow Application Note 24 Jul 2024 Design Files
Document Category Title Date	Brochures DMA Performance Benchmark 07 Mar 2024
Document Category Title Date	Brochures PolarFire® FPGAs and SoC FPGAs 05 Jun 2024
Document Category Title Date	Brochures Mi-V RISC-V Ecosystem Brochure 14 Feb 2024
Document Category Title Date	Supporting Collateral Radiation-Tolerant PolarFire® SoC FPGA Product Overview 11 Apr 2024
Document Category Title Date	Product Brief PolarFire® SoC Product Overview 20 Jun 2024
Document Category Title Date	White Paper PolarFire_SoC_CPU_Performance_Benchmarking_Whitepaper 30 Mar 2022
Document Category Title Date	White Paper PolarFire SoC Linux Boot Time White Paper 30 Mar 2022
Document Category Title Date	White Paper PolarFire SoC FPGA: Application Waypointing 30 Mar 2022
Document Category Title Date	White Paper PolarFire® SoC FPGA: Opus Codec Benchmarking 30 Mar 2022
Document Category Title Date	White Paper PolarFire SoC FPGA: Interrupt Latency and Data Transfer Throughput Measurements 30 Mar 2022
Document Category Title Date	White Paper Measurement of Worst Case Execution Time on PolarFire® SoC FPGA 13 Feb 2025
Document Category Title Date	White Paper FPGA Programmed Content Integrity Checking and Programming File Tracking using Cryptographic Digests 24 Jan 2025
Document Category Title Date	Other Board Design Files PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit Mechanical Drawing 30 Mar 2022
Document Category Title Date	Reference Manual PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit Schematics 19 Aug 2020
Document Category Title Date	Reference Manual MPFS-ICICLE-KIT-ES_Board_Files 19 Aug 2020
Document Category Title Date	User Guide PolarFire SoC FPGA Board Design Guidelines User Guide 22 Aug 2024
Document Category Title Date	User Guide MPFS-ICICLE-KIT-ES_User Guide 17 Dec 2024
Document Category Title Date	User Guide PolarFire FPGA and PolarFire SoC FPGA Power Estimator User Guide 09 Dec 2019
Document Category Title Date	User Guide PolarFire Family Memory Controller User Guide 03 Oct 2024
Document Category Title Date	Tools Memory Log Analyzer GUI Installer 16 Feb 2025
Document Category Title Date	Board Design Files PolarFire , PolarFire SoC and RT PolarFire FPGA Power Estimator 20 Feb 2025
Document Category Title Date	Thermal Models PolarFire SoC Delphi Compact Thermal Model 30 Jan 2025
Document Category Title Date	Reference Manual PolarFire SoC MSS Technical Reference Manual 09 Jul 2024
Document Category Title Date	Information Sheet PolarFire SoC FPGA Register Map 31 May 2024
Document Category Title Date	Information Sheet PolarFire SoC Material Declaration Data Sheet 15 Apr 2025
Document Category Title Date	Data Sheets PolarFire® SoC Datasheet 03 May 2024
Document Category Title Date	Data Sheets PD3068: Package Mechanical Drawings Datasheet 17 Apr 2025
Document Category Title Date	PolarFire SoC MPFS250 FCV484 TX S-parameter Model 07 Feb 2023
Document Category Title Date	PolarFire SoC MPFS250 FCV484 RX S-parameter Model 07 Feb 2023

Title	Date
AN4723:PolarFire SoC FPGA Video Kit Picture-In-Picture Application Note	18 Apr 2025	Link
AN4977: OPC UA Industrial Edge Demo	03 Apr 2024	Link
AN5165: PolarFire SoC FPGA DSP FIR Filter Application Note	21 Oct 2024	Link
AN5282: PolarFire SoC Design Flow Application Note	24 Jul 2024	Link
AN4529: PolarFire SoC FPGA H.264 Video Streaming Over Ethernet Application Note	08 Oct 2024	Link
AC492: Running BareMetal User Applications on PolarFire SoC FPGA Application Note	07 Oct 2020	Link
DMA Performance Benchmark	07 Mar 2024
AN4737: Migrating Software to PolarFire SoC from Zynq-7000 SoC Application Note	13 Feb 2025	Link

Product Data Sheets

Errata

Packaging/PPAT

IBIS Models

S Parameter Model

BSDL Models

Product Data Sheets

Title	Date
PolarFire SoC Delphi Compact Thermal Model	30 Jan 2025
PolarFire SoC Material Declaration Data Sheet	15 Apr 2025
PolarFire® SoC Datasheet	03 May 2024
PD3068: Package Mechanical Drawings Datasheet	17 Apr 2025
PolarFire SoC MSS Technical Reference Manual	09 Jul 2024
PolarFire SoC FPGA Register Map	31 May 2024

Errata

Packaging/PPAT

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IBIS Models

S-Parameter Models

Title	Date
PolarFire SoC MPFS250 FCV484 TX S-parameter Model	07 Feb 2023
PolarFire SoC MPFS250 FCV484 RX S-parameter Model	07 Feb 2023

BSDL Models

Title	Date
PolarFire FPGA and PolarFire SoC FPGA Power Estimator User Guide	09 Dec 2019
PolarFire Family Memory Controller User Guide	03 Oct 2024
Memory Log Analyzer GUI Installer	16 Feb 2025
PolarFire , PolarFire SoC and RT PolarFire FPGA Power Estimator	20 Feb 2025

Brochures

White Papers

Board Files

Brochures and Product Overviews

Title	Date
PolarFire® FPGAs and SoC FPGAs	05 Jun 2024
Radiation-Tolerant PolarFire® SoC FPGA Product Overview	11 Apr 2024
Mi-V RISC-V Ecosystem Brochure	14 Feb 2024
PolarFire® SoC Product Overview	20 Jun 2024

White Papers

Title	Date
PolarFire_SoC_CPU_Performance_Benchmarking_Whitepaper	30 Mar 2022
PolarFire SoC Linux Boot Time White Paper	30 Mar 2022
PolarFire SoC FPGA: Application Waypointing	30 Mar 2022
PolarFire® SoC FPGA: Opus Codec Benchmarking	30 Mar 2022
PolarFire SoC FPGA: Interrupt Latency and Data Transfer Throughput Measurements	30 Mar 2022
Measurement of Worst Case Execution Time on PolarFire® SoC FPGA	13 Feb 2025
FPGA Programmed Content Integrity Checking and Programming File Tracking using Cryptographic Digests	24 Jan 2025

Board Files

Title	Date
PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit Mechanical Drawing	30 Mar 2022
PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit Schematics	19 Aug 2020
MPFS-ICICLE-KIT-ES_Board_Files	19 Aug 2020
PolarFire SoC FPGA Board Design Guidelines User Guide	22 Aug 2024
MPFS-ICICLE-KIT-ES_User Guide	17 Dec 2024

Radiation Data

RT PolarFire^® SoC FPGAs are offered with multiple speed grades, temperatures, and package combinations. All temperatures are specified as junction temperatures.

Mi-V Ecosystem

The Mi-V RISC-V ecosystem is a continuously expanding, comprehensive suite of tools and design resources developed by Microchip and numerous third parties to fully support RISC-V designs. The Mi-V ecosystem aims to increase adoption of the RISC-V ISA and our PolarFire SoC FPGA and RISC-V soft CPU portfolio.

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Kits and Hardware

Microchip Evaluation Platforms
Mi-V Ecosystem Platforms

PolarFire^® SoC Icicle Kit

The PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit runs Linux^® out of the box and evaluates the microprocessor (MPU) subsystem, FPGA fabric, PCIe^®, Gigabit Ethernet, CAN, USB and more.

Buy PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit

PolarFire^® SoC Video Kit

The PolarFire SoC Video Kit is a full-featured embedded vision development platform targeting secure, reliable and power-efficient vision applications at the edge, including our VectorBlox™ Accelerator SDK and Neural Network IP, and Industrial IoT (IIoT) and automation applications.

Buy PolarFire SoC Video Kit

PolarFire^® SoC Discovery Kit

The PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit is a low-cost, open-source development kit powered by a quad-core, RISC-V application-class processor. This device supports Linux^® and real-time applications, a rich set of peripherals and 95K low-power, high-performance FPGA logic elements.

Buy PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit

Programmers and Adapters

FlashPro6

This latest-generation programmer supports the Windows® and Linux® operating systems in conjunction with Libero® SoC Design Suite, FlashPro Express and SmartDebug software.

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FlashPro5

This fifth-generation programmer supports Windows and Linux environments.

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FlashPro4

This fourth-generation hardware programmer supports only Windows environments.

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Silicon Sculptor 4

This is a CE-compliant production device programmer.

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Silicon Sculptor Adapter Module

Silicon sculptor adapter modules are package specific. They depend on the product family, but are independent of gate count.

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ChipPro Programmer Baseboard

ChipPro is a quick and easy device programming solution for our FPGA devices.

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In-House-Programming

An optional In-House Programming (IHP) service is available if you are purchasing our devices in large volumes.

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Aldec TySoM-M

Key features:

PolarFire SoC FPGA (MPFS250T-FCG1152E)
Memory: 16 Gb FPGA DDR4 ×32, 64 Kb EEPROM, microSD™, SPI Flash and eMMC
Interfaces: 2× FMC connector, 2× Ethernet, 1× USB 2.0, HDMI^®, PCIe^® ×4 Gen 2 root port and CAN

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Aries Embedded SoM

Key features:

PolarFire SoC FPGA (MPFS250T-FCVG484E)
Memory: 4 GB LPDDR4 for MSS, 4 GB LPDDR4 for FPGA, 4 MB SPI Flash and 8 GB eMMC
Interfaces: 2 × Samtec QSH-090-01-F-D-A board-to-board interconnect
Dimensions: 74 mm × 42 mm

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Conclusive Engineering SoM

Features PolarFire SoC FPGA (MPFS250T-FCVG484E)
Memory: LPDDR4 (1, 2, 4 or 8 GB), eMMC 5.0 (4–64 GB), 8 KB EEPROM
Interfaces: USB 2.0 OTG, ×4 PCIe 2.0, 1 × SGMII, 1 × JTAG, 1 × UART, 1 × I²C, 802.11/b/g/n Wi-Fi®
Dimensions 65 × 45 mm

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Digitalcore SoM

Key features:

PolarFire SoC FPGA (MPFS250T-FCVG484E)
Memory: 2 GB LPDDR4, 8 GB eMMC and 128 MB SPI Flash
Interfaces: Wi-Fi/BT, 1 × GbE, 1 × USB 2.0, ×4 PCIe Gen 2
Dimensions: 75 mm × 55 mm

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Sundance Polarberry SoM

Key features:

PolarFire SOC FPGA (MPFS250T-FCVG484E)
Memory: 4 GB DDR4, 128 MB SPI Flash and 4 GB eMMC
Interfaces: 4 × 12.7G transceivers, 40-pin Raspberry Pi interface and 1× RJ-45 connector
Dimensions: 55 mm × 85 mm

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Enclustra Mercury SoM

Key features:

PolarFire SoC FPGA (MPFS250TS-FCG1152I)
Memory: DDR4 with ECC for MSS, DDR4 for FPGA, up to 19.2 GByte/sec memory bandwidth
Interfaces: PCIe Gen2 ×4, USB 2.0 and 2 × Gigabit Ethernet
Dimensions: 74 × 54 mm

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BeagleV^®-Fire

Key features:

PolarFire SoC FPGA (MPFS025T-FCVG484E)
Memory and storage: 2 GB LPDDR4, 16 GB e-MMC™ Flash, 128 Mbit SPI Flash, microSD™ card socket
Power: USB Type-C^®, screw terminals
Expansion and connectors: Gigabit Ethernet, M.2 E-key socket for Wi-Fi^® (PCIe^®/USB), SYZYGY high-speed expansion header, two 46-pin BeagleBone^®-compatible headers
55 mm × 88 mm

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Numato Lab^® EagleCore™ SOM

Key features:

PolarFire SoC FPGA (MPFS250T-FCVG484)
Memory: e-MMC, 8 GB, Flash Memory: 1 Gb SPI
Two Gigabit Ethernet PHYs
OTG PHY
User-defined I/Os: (HSIO: 58 I/Os, GPIO: 50 I/Os, MSSIO: 10 I/Os, four SerDes)
72 mm × 54 mm

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Radiation-Tolerant PolarFire® SoC FPGAs

First RISC-V® Based, Radiation-Tolerant System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGA

Key Benefits

Low Power Consumption

Radiation Tolerance

Qualification for Space Flight

Product Table

Documentation

Product Data Sheets

Errata

Packaging/PPAT

IBIS Models

S-Parameter Models

BSDL Models

Brochures and Product Overviews

White Papers

Board Files

Mi-V Ecosystem

Kits and Hardware

PolarFire® SoC Icicle Kit

PolarFire® SoC Video Kit

PolarFire® SoC Discovery Kit

Programmers and Adapters

FlashPro6

FlashPro5

FlashPro4

Silicon Sculptor 4

Silicon Sculptor Adapter Module

ChipPro Programmer Baseboard

In-House-Programming

Explore Other FPGA Kits and Hardware

Aldec TySoM-M

Aries Embedded SoM

Conclusive Engineering SoM

Digitalcore SoM

Sundance Polarberry SoM

Enclustra Mercury SoM

BeagleV®-Fire

Numato Lab® EagleCore™ SOM

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Radiation-Tolerant PolarFire^® SoC FPGAs

First RISC-V^® Based, Radiation-Tolerant System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGA

PolarFire^® SoC Icicle Kit

PolarFire^® SoC Video Kit

PolarFire^® SoC Discovery Kit

BeagleV^®-Fire

Numato Lab^® EagleCore™ SOM